Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Irish critic Colm Tóibín , who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns , Wordsworth ...

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

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel...

At eighteen, in 1908 (which makes her the same age as her author), she experiences initial social success in Vienna, but her reading of dubious texts (not only Schiller 's Maria Stuart but...

Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between...

Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...

The narrative provides a fairly complex interrogation of the notion that a woman's love can rescue a man from his sins. The romance in Schiller 's Die Piccolomini provides a point of reference throughout the narrative.

TD opens A Sheaf with a quotation from Schiller and a dedication to her mother . The translated poems (nearly all of which have accompanying critical notes) come from a range of French authors including...

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.

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...

Here Dora became passionate about Goethe and Schiller , Mendelssohn and Schubert , and about theatre in general.

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

Although she briefly attended young ladies' schools, JWH was mainly educated at home. She was tutored by Joseph Cogswell , who would go on to head the Astor Library . Under his instruction she mastered...

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...