Gradually, Friedrich wins her affection, her parents’ assent (not too difficult, if their daughter be allowed to grow just a little older), and finally his father’s blessing (very difficult). In his courtship he is aided, impeded, and exasperated by a superbly rich and varied cast of family members and friends. He falls in love with the young (very young!) daughter of an unacceptably bourgeois family. Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), aka ‘ Novalis’, is a struggling young poet, philosopher and novelist (& impoverished minor aristocrat). Germany in the 1790s, the French Revolution rumbling in the background. Full stop.Īlthough, superficially, I must admit, the story is almost Mills & Boon. It is probably the best work of historical fiction ever written.

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