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BRIEFE UND TAGEBUCHBLÄTTER VON GRÄFIN C *** : CLOTILDE VON STOCKHAUSEN'S DIARY COMES BACK TO LIGHT
Author(s) -
Sayer John
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
german life and letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1468-0483
pISSN - 0016-8777
DOI - 10.1111/glal.12180
Subject(s) - wife , feeling , art history , art , humanities , philosophy , theology , epistemology
Misconceptions surrounded the missing diary of Clotilde von Stockhausen, admired by Reichskanzler von Bülow but overlooked thereafter, until a copy was identified in 2016 and another later emerged during the Google digitalisation of Austrian National Library nineteenth‐century holdings. The fictions around the diary and von Bülow's interest are now explained and dispelled. The diary is introduced as a fine example of literature in miniature, beautifully written, using images from the natural world, a searching but witty record and exploration of personal feelings and reflections contrasting with outward appearances. What is known of the diary's composition and publication is discussed, and the diary is set against Clotilde's family background and high‐society prominence as an ambassador's wife at critical moments in Paris and Vienna.