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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth von Arnim
In Berlin, May von Arnim-Schlagenthin first encountered the works of Goethe
and also of Bettina von Arnim
. The latter was a literary and family forebear of her husband, a poet and an associate...
