Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

JWC and Thomas shared an admiration for Goethe . Thomas corresponded with him, and Jane netted him a purse. In reply Goethe sent the couple medallions and books, and for Jane he included a locket...

ABJ met Ottilie von Goethe , the widow of Goethe 's son August; Jameson supported her when she became pregnant out of wedlock in 1835.

On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded in his diary meeting JB and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger ). In his account of this pleasant evening...

In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller , Goethe , Henry Crabb Robinson , and Schlegel , whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children.

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

Syndy Conger has noted that this novel reveals a shift in Smith's attitude to sensibility in the four years since her sonnets: where she was enthusiastic she is now sceptical, even satirical, in her stance...

Set on the coast of Devon fifty years earlier, it traces the fates of two strong characters: Methodist preacher and shopkeeper Joshua Haggard and his daughter Naomi. In the opening scene, Joshua rescues Oswald Pentreath...

The epigraph, she said, came from an (unidentified) old English author. It reads (slightly differently rendered in different versions): And there was moche playe and entreplaye of musick, divers instrumentys makyng mynstralsy with eche other...

The novel takes its epigraph from Goethe 's Faust.CN 's heroine, Beatrice Brooke, is tricked into elopement at seventeen by Montague Treherne. First he invites her onto a boat at Venice...

FH studied German earnestly during this period of her life, and preferred Schiller to Goethe .

This collection of essays marks her turn from the search for pure aesthetic perception and expression towards the growth of social conscience. She frames this change by her reading of Pater 's Marius the Epicurean...

Tributes of Affection concludes with three ballads, some verse letters exchanged between EST and her brother in the personae of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Charlotte and Werter, and two fables by EST (The Rat who had Retired from...

It carries an epigraph from Goethe 's Sorrows of Young Werther about the advantages and disadvantages of middle-class society and its codes of conduct. The number of central characters here is higher than in AB

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...