Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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...

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.

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...

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

AL acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Goethe , Heine , Robert Browning , Swinburne (whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson (the...

LMA 's Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustian novel A Modern Mephistopheles was published in 1877. Its title had originally belonged to her sensation novel, A Long and Fatal Love Chase, which was posthumously published in 1995.

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.

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...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists...

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

Critic Shirley Neuman sees this opera as an important step towards the final version of Ida.GS 's Faustus (unlike Marlowe 's or Goethe 's) is tormented by the fact that he cannot go...

Her model for the sonnet, as well as for the use of male erotic voices from Petrarch and Goethe , was Charlotte Smith , though AB 's tone is more unrestrained and impassioned than Smith's.

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...