Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An important social and cultural critic in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, MF published in a variety of forms, including travel literature, translations from German (notably Goethe , about whom she also published...

EW 's career in print spanned less than a decade. She began in 1787, with a published comedy and a contribution to the controversy over Goethe 's sentimental novel Werter a poem and a statement...

Sources suggest that FH contributed, probably around 1821, essays on foreign literature (probably Italian poets) to the Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, perhaps following an essay on Spanish literature to Blackwood's the year before...

The eighteen-year-old AL published a translation from Goethe in the Cambridge Review; the following August Euphemia, a Sketch appeared in the Victoria Magazine.

A manuscript of HC 's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced. Overall, in fact, little survives, though she included The Maid of Enterkin in her first novel, and George Neilson

Jane had greatly enjoyed her time in London, notwithstanding her poor health. Her sadness about returning to Scotland was compounded by the deaths of James Carlyle (Thomas's father) and of Goethe .

The main ambition of Brother Tragedians was to reduce prejudices typically directed towards actresses and actors, by demonstrating their many virtuous qualities. IH 's Introductory Appeal cites Goethe 's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship...

She writes that the passion for Wagner among the precious and intellectually snobbish is dying out; he is less fashionable now, while Bayreuth is developing a populist, carnival aspect. Wagner snobs, she says, have been...

The frontispiece shows a woman sitting beside a well with an empty bucket. The caption, in Latin, indicates that she has despaired of finding Truth, which proverbially lies at the bottom of a well. Many...

This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle (to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his...

Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe 's Werther, which...

AS 's first volume included two plays by Goethe and one by Schiller , plus her introduction.

AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

The volume contains forty-seven original poems and sixteen translations from German—fourteen of them from Goethe —and two from Italian. In general, the poems have a more optimistic tone than those in the earlier collection...