The King of Carlyle
Giles MacDonogh visits the History Today archive to examine Nancy Mitford’s 1968 article on one of the ‘oddest’ biographies ever written, Thomas Carlyle’s massive study of Frederick the Great.
Thomas Carlyle’s life of Frederick the Great was published in eight volumes between 1858 and 1865. Nancy Mitford produced a single volume life of the Prussian king in 1970 which her History Today article anticipates. Between these two publications fell the chasm of the Victorian age, the solid Edwardian years and two world wars in which the Germans (always vilified as ‘Prussians’) were decidedly the villains of the piece.
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