August Wilhelm von Schlegel

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.

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...

In Bonn, LDG 's father studied Roman Law under Niebuhr and Schlegel in preparation for his upcoming appointment as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of London .

French censors read the page proofs and decreed that all traces of the work should be destroyed. Appeals to Napoleon proved futile, of course. However, GS had the foresight to hide one set of proofs...

Anna had previously travelled on the Continent with Sir Gerard Noel and his daughter. The sculptor Behnes Burlowe had introduced her to Robert Noel , a cousin of Lady Byron . Noel in turn...