Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ABJ met Ottilie von Goethe , the widow of Goethe 's son August; Jameson supported her when she became pregnant out of wedlock in 1835.

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...

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

This collection of essays marks her turn from the search for pure aesthetic perception and expression towards the growth of social conscience. She frames this change by her reading of Pater 's Marius the Epicurean...

Tributes of Affection concludes with three ballads, some verse letters exchanged between EST and her brother in the personae of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Charlotte and Werter, and two fables by EST (The Rat who had Retired from...

It carries an epigraph from Goethe 's Sorrows of Young Werther about the advantages and disadvantages of middle-class society and its codes of conduct. The number of central characters here is higher than in AB

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

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.