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Anglo-German Attitudes: Mary, Countess von Bothmer (1833–1901) by Felicia Gordon is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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offers an intriguing glimpse of nineteenth-century Anglo-German attitudes. She was a rare but not unique instance of an English woman writer engaging with political ideas and attempting to develop them in fiction, pamphlets and memoirs. While certainly lacking the stature, scholarship or cultural sweep of a George Eliot, she nevertheless displays a cosmopolitan range, commenting on contemporary cultural and political tensions in Europe. An almost exact contemporary of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and living during a period of close royal links between Britain and Germany, Bothmer tapped into a growing British interest in German life and manners. 1 Fully aware of British unease over the rise of Prussia, and herself critical of its militaristic ethos, she nevertheless argued for an Anglo-German entente to maintain and consolidate the European balance of power. 2 Her 1876 popular memoir, German Home Life (1876), as well as describing German domestic arrangements, revealed a strong feminist perspective, developed further in her novels. Running alongside her feminism, were Bothmer's attachment to rigid class hierarchies coupled with the explicit Antisemitism of her essay, "The Jews in Ger
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- Author
- Felicia Gordon
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)