""A German Pompadour"" by Marie Hay is a historical biography that tells the extraordinary story of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz, the Landhofmeisterin (court mistress) of Wirtemberg in Germany. The book was originally published in 1906 and provides a fascinating insight into the life of a powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe.Wilhelmine von Gravenitz was born into a noble family and was appointed as the Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg at the age...