Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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...

This novel re-writes Rousseau 's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan 's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie 's Julia de Roubigné. The love-triangle of Williams's Julia is...

Julia is layered with allusion not only to Rousseau and Goethe but also to John Home 's tragedy Douglas.

After an epigraph from Goethe (in German) EW begins with her earliest memory, which she identifies with the birth of identity and relates in the third person, of the little girl who eventually became me...

JW provided two prefaces, one to the poems and one to the plays. The latter calls contemporary German playwrights (Schiller , Goethe , Kotzebue ) contemptible in composition. Her...

EW made an early venture into print by contributing to the controversy swirling around Goethe 's Werter: A Letter to a Friend, with a Poem called, The Ghost of Werter.

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...

Inspired by the spirited correspondence between Goethe and Bettina von Arnim , EA (as the author of Elizabeth and her German Garden) published Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.

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...

Following the relaunch of her marriage to Denys Trefusis in early 1922, VT kept a diary that was, she says, entirely given over to that eternally adolescent couple: Weltschmerz and Schadenfreude. She jokingly connected...

EST 's second novel, The Victim of Fancy, published as by a Lady, appeared, post-dated 1787. It was epistolary and highly sentimental, composed in response to the cult of Goethe 's (translated) The Sorrows of Werter.

EST wrote a verse dedication of this novel to the poet William Hayley , with allusions which show her to be well acquainted with his writings. She addresses him as a patron of writing women...

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...

WMT spent six months in Germany, primarily in Weimar, where he met Goethe .

As well as meeting Goethe , he had some contact with the intellectual circle presided over by Goethe's daughter-in-law, Ottilie .