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Book Review by M.E. Lets(Trinity College, Conn.)

About the Article

Article
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Journal
CHOICE
Issued Date
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Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
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Book
Memoirs of a Korean queen
Writer
Hyegyeong-Gung Hong
Translator
Choe-Wall Yang-hi

About the Author

  • Hyegyeong-Gung Hong
  • Birth : 1735 ~ 1815
  • Occupation : Essayist
  • First Name : Hyegyeonggunghongssi
  • Family Name : Hyegyeonggung
  • Korean Name : 혜경궁 홍씨
  • ISNI : 0000000117947733
  • Works : 13
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  • English(English)

Lady Hong apparently wrote this remarkable account of an 18th-century family tragedy in the Yi court in her twilight years to explain the circumstances of the "Imo Incident" to then-ruling King Chongjo.  In her memoirs, Lady Hong tells how the relationship between her late husband, Crown Prince Sado, and his father, King Yongjo, was poisoned first by Yongjo's inattention to his son's development and later by the King's frank expressions of dislike for his heir

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