Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832

Standard Name: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty	Anne Marsh	Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...
Travel	William Makepeace Thackeray	WMT spent six months in Germany, primarily in Weimar, where he met Goethe . Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Travel	Bessie Rayner Parkes	Some time after her years of schooling and her trip to abroad, BRP visited Italy. She also went to Germany in order to make a pilgrimage to Goethe 's Weimar. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 13
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	May Sinclair	Many of these poems were influenced by music and showed her facility in developing pleasant rhythmic effects in her verse. Her subjects include self-discovery, religious faith, and the creative process. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 40, 43 The first poem...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins	EST wrote a verse dedication of this novel to the poet William Hayley , with allusions which show her to be well acquainted with his writings. She addresses him as a patron of writing women...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Anne Grant	Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Jane West	JW provided two prefaces, one to the poems and one to the plays. The latter calls contemporary German playwrights (Schiller , Goethe , Kotzebue ) contemptible in composition. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 27 (1799): 131 Her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Bessie Rayner Parkes	Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...
Textual Production	Eliza Parsons	Founded on Fact[s] in titles often had no basis in truth, having been used, for instance, on translation from Goethe in 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact
Textual Production	Anna Swanwick	AS issued her earliest translation, Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller. Athenæum. J. Lection. 990 (1846): 1062
Textual Production	George Henry Lewes	GHL published the first complete biography of Goethe in any language: The Life and Works of Goethe. George Eliot assisted in the research. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1463 (1844): 1302-4 Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press. 160-2
Textual Production	Dorothy Richardson	She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage. Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press. 41-2, 90, 212
Textual Production	Anna Swanwick	AS published her blank-verse renderings into English of Goethe 's Faust (the first part), together with Egmont, and two plays by him reprinted from her first volume. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 40
Textual Production	Dorothy Richardson	In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production	Anne Francis	AF changed publishers from Dodsley to Becket when she added to the voices raised in response to Goethe in Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle. Francis, Anne. Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle. T. Becket. prelims

Timeline

1774

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (translated into English by June 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact).

1808

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Faust: Part One; it followed his Faust: A Fragment, 1790.

22 March 1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died at Weimar in Germany in his early eighties.

Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cambridge University Press.

Texts

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von et al. Characteristics of Goethe. Translator Austin, Sarah, Effingham Wilson, 1833.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Dramatic Works of Goethe. Translators Swanwick, Anna and Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Bohn, 1851.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Translator Swanwick, Anna, George Bell, 1879.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Selections from the dramas of Goethe and Schiller. Translator Swanwick, Anna, John Murray, 1843.