Was it from Vienna where the notion of girls marrying their fathers came? Freud, was it? Well, I can assure you, I did not marry my papa. Duke Maximilian Joseph was nothing like the Emperor. My papa was an eccentric hedonist–a champion of the underclass. He liked nothing more than to dress up as King [...]
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Scheisse my Papa says
Posted in Child-rearing, Kings & Queens, poems, the insufferable governess on December 2, 1848 | Leave a Comment »
bounce, fop and pope
Posted in lap dogs, poems, Victorian Culture on September 1, 1848 | Leave a Comment »
Baroness does not approve of my reading Pope. But, too bad! This little poem is one of my favorites. Mummi has two of these silly dogs, and they accompany her everywhere! Alexander Pope’s dog, Bounce, wrote this little verse to Fop, the irritating spaniel belonging to that famous tart, Countess Henrietta Howard: We Country Dogs [...]
