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The Confessions of the Celebrated Countess of Lichtenau, Late Mrs. Rietz / Now Confined in the Fortress of Gloglau as a State-prisoner

Chapter 8: Transcriber’s Notes
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A woman born to modest origins recounts how personal beauty and cultivated charms win a powerful patron and propel her into courtly society and fashionable life. She details marriages, affairs, travels, costly indulgence, and the use of intimate influence to affect political decisions and alliances. The narrative combines personal memoir and scandalous anecdote while noting that coarse passages were omitted, and it follows the consequences of dependence on patronage: mounting expense, social rivalry, loss of favor, and eventual arrest and confinement in a state fortress, presenting a compact portrait of ambition, vanity, and downfall.

Transcriber’s Notes

Title page: “FORTRESS OF GLOGLAU” changed to “FORTRESS OF GLOGAU”

Page iv: “has ben felt” changed to “has been felt”

Page 18: “but a charletan,” changed to “but a charlatan,”

Page 19: “transmitting his to Majesty” changed to “transmitting to his Majesty” “deigned to addressed them.” changed to “deigned to address them.”

Page 25: “Monsons, I, and B——” changed to “Mousons, I, and B——”

Page 32: “whole groupes were seen” changed to “whole groups were seen”

Page 33: “baldachim” changed to “baldachin” and “their amourous attitudes” changed to “their amorous attitudes”

Page 51: “A——lany” changed to “A——lang”

Page 53: “the Privy Counseller” changed to “the Privy Counsellor”

Page 67: “of the events whcih” changed to “of the events which”

Some sections of the original text that were indicated by rows of asterisks, seemingly to indicate removed text, have been replaced with ellipses.