Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Standard Name: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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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 Elizabeth Rigby
During a second trip to Germany, ER penned a solid but unfriendly
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
article on Goethe . It appeared in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland.
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Textual Production Betty Miller
The Browning line (How good is man's life, the mere living!) is quoted as epigraph, along with a passage from Goethe which is also about enjoyment of life.
Miller, Betty. The Mere Living. Victor Gollancz.
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Textual Production Anne Burke
AB 's first novel, the two-volume, anonymous, epistolary Eleanora: From the Sorrows of Werter. A Tale, was part of the overwhelming response to Goethe 's The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Goethe's novel, published...
Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
This was published by Saint Albert's Press at Aylesford in an edition of 500 copies, with 26 copies in hard covers on special paper, signed by the poet and marked with the letters of the...
Textual Production Margaret Fuller
MF 's earliest known writings were connected to her interest in the works of Goethe . She translated his Torquato Tasso between late 1833 and 1834, although it first appeared in print posthumously, in the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
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.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Constance Naden
This had a red cover with the same design of a trailing plant that adorned her Songs and Sonnets of Springtime, with the frontispiece image and signature (Constance C.W. Naden) which are...
Textual Production Sarah Austin
One of SA 's most important translations, Characteristics of Goethe (from several German authors), appeared in three volumes.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
291 (1833): 322-23
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Jane Welsh Carlyle
In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe and Pierre Cardenal , and of Chateaubriand 's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane West
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 27 (1799): 131
Her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Bessie Rayner Parkes
Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Sinclair
Many of these poems were influenced by music and showed her facility in developing pleasant rhythmic effects in her verse. Her subjects include self-discovery, religious faith, and the creative process.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
40, 43
The first poem...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises),
Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme.
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it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

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