Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Although she briefly attended young ladies' schools, JWH was mainly educated at home. She was tutored by Joseph Cogswell , who would go on to head the Astor Library . Under his instruction she mastered...

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...

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...

Here Dora became passionate about Goethe and Schiller , Mendelssohn and Schubert , and about theatre in general.

After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve. There one of the incidents...

She was frustrating to her teachers too, as, according to Frumerie, she had an unusually good memory while studying, yet she could never remember what was told her in daily life. Of an evening...

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...

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.

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...

TD opens A Sheaf with a quotation from Schiller and a dedication to her mother . The translated poems (nearly all of which have accompanying critical notes) come from a range of French authors including...

The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel...

At eighteen, in 1908 (which makes her the same age as her author), she experiences initial social success in Vienna, but her reading of dubious texts (not only Schiller 's Maria Stuart but...

Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between...

Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...

FH studied German earnestly during this period of her life, and preferred Schiller to Goethe .