Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Standard Name: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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Textual Features Anna Swanwick
AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...
Textual Features Lucy Knox
The volume contains forty-seven original poems and sixteen translations from German—fourteen of them from Goethe —and two from Italian.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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In general, the poems have a more optimistic tone than those in the earlier collection...
Textual Features Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
This epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister ) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau 's Nouvelle...
Textual Features Bryony Lavery
The title More Light (which sounds like a quotation of the famous last words of Goethe ) is here spoken by the dying Emperor as he is conveyed into a splendid tomb whose building has...
Textual Features Constance Naden
The book is divided into four sections: The Astronomer, etc., The Lady Doctor, etc. (from the poem already printed in London Society), Sonnets, and Translations (which come from Schiller , Goethe ,...
Textual Production Violet Trefusis
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.
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson.
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She jokingly connected...
Textual Production Eglinton Wallace
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.
Wallace, Eglinton. A Letter to a Friend, with a Poem called, The Ghost of Werter. T. Hookham.
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Textual Production Eliza Parsons
Founded on Fact[s] in titles often had no basis in truth, having been used, for instance, on translation from Goethe in 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact
Textual Production George Henry Lewes
GHL published the first complete biography of Goethe in any language: The Life and Works of Goethe. George Eliot assisted in the research.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1463 (1844): 1302-4
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
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Textual Production Anna Swanwick
AS issued her earliest translation, Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
990 (1846): 1062
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Anna Swanwick
AS published her blank-verse renderings into English of Goethe 's Faust (the first part), together with Egmont, and two plays by him reprinted from her first volume.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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Textual Production Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB continued after this to maintain a rate of about one new novel a year. In Gerard, which appeared in 1891, she combined elements from Goethe 's Faust with others from Balzac 's La...
Textual Production Anne Francis
AF changed publishers from Dodsley to Becket when she added to the voices raised in response to Goethe in Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle.
Francis, Anne. Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle. T. Becket.
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