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Mrs. Fredersdorf and her husbands
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selenakFirst, in her grandson's report, as given in the short volume "Anekdoten, die wir erlebten und hörten".
From a trio of German Romantic writers - Achim von Arnim, his wife Bettina, who is also the sister of the third, Achim's bff Clemens Brentano. Of interest to us because Achim was the grandson of the former Mrs. Fredersdorf, grew up at Zernikow and provided a good quote for the current Zernikow website which as it turns out hails from this volume (though the website version lacks the virginity part). The editor points out that both the Brentano siblings and Achim von Arnim lost their mothers early and did not get along with their fathers, hence the intense relating to the grandparents, of whom all these anecdotes tell. Of interest to us is what Achim has to say about Grandma, her father, and also his Grandfather (her third husband). It's also worth reading the footnotes, which reveal that, drumroll, Caroline (i.e. Mrs. Fredersdorf) wrote a short "My life so far" memoir in 1777, of which a typoscript exists and is mentioned in the source footnote as follows: Typoskript einer Lebensbeschreibung vom 13. September 1777 im Brandesburgischen Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam, Rep. 37, Bärwalde-Wiepersdorf, Nr. 1832.) We'll get to this document as well.
( Caroline's father: Pal of FW, raises his daughter accordingly )
On to Caroline.
( Fredersdorf clearly had a type. )
( Hans von Labes: Caroline's Kaphengst )
Now,mildred_of_midgard found Caroline's 1777 written four page story of her life in no time flat. It's in the library now, starting on page 63. In addition to having even more nice things to say about Fredersdorf, it definitely contradicts Achim's version of how the marriage came about, though you can see why he misremembered it that way decades later.
( Caroline speaks, the salon debates )
From a trio of German Romantic writers - Achim von Arnim, his wife Bettina, who is also the sister of the third, Achim's bff Clemens Brentano. Of interest to us because Achim was the grandson of the former Mrs. Fredersdorf, grew up at Zernikow and provided a good quote for the current Zernikow website which as it turns out hails from this volume (though the website version lacks the virginity part). The editor points out that both the Brentano siblings and Achim von Arnim lost their mothers early and did not get along with their fathers, hence the intense relating to the grandparents, of whom all these anecdotes tell. Of interest to us is what Achim has to say about Grandma, her father, and also his Grandfather (her third husband). It's also worth reading the footnotes, which reveal that, drumroll, Caroline (i.e. Mrs. Fredersdorf) wrote a short "My life so far" memoir in 1777, of which a typoscript exists and is mentioned in the source footnote as follows: Typoskript einer Lebensbeschreibung vom 13. September 1777 im Brandesburgischen Landeshauptarchiv Potsdam, Rep. 37, Bärwalde-Wiepersdorf, Nr. 1832.) We'll get to this document as well.
( Caroline's father: Pal of FW, raises his daughter accordingly )
On to Caroline.
( Fredersdorf clearly had a type. )
( Hans von Labes: Caroline's Kaphengst )
Now,
mildred_of_midgard found Caroline's 1777 written four page story of her life in no time flat. It's in the library now, starting on page 63. In addition to having even more nice things to say about Fredersdorf, it definitely contradicts Achim's version of how the marriage came about, though you can see why he misremembered it that way decades later.( Caroline speaks, the salon debates )
