Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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 ...

AML may be said to have married into her husband's job: in the words of theatre historian L. W. Conolly , she sometimes even acted as censor herself. She attended plays, catalogued dramatic manuscripts...

Plays by F.A. Kemble appeared, subtitled An English Tragedy. A Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart , translated from the German of Schiller . Mademoiselle de Belle Isle, translated from the French of Alexandre Dumas

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...

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...

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

CG 's historical drama Don Juan of Austria (adapted from Don Juan D'Autriche by Casimir Delavigne ) began a twelve-night run at Covent Garden .

In life her hero (whose actual name was Friedrich Leopold, or Fritz, von Hardenberg) was a friend of Schiller and Schlegel , and died in 1801 before the age of thirty, having just published his...

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...

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.

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...

The first writing by MB to become public was an ode she wrote in German to mark the centenary of Friedrich Schiller , which was recited at commemorations in Bradford.

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...

The 1798 instalment of the series consists of three plays, two on love (the comedy The Tryal and the tragedy Count Basil) and one, the tragedy De Monfort, on hate. De Monfort himself...