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Article: German women writers in English short story anthologies of the 1820s.
- Article from:
- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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German literature and culture first began to make an impact in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. The reception of Germany's great Enlightenment and Romantic literati, notably Goethe, Schiller, and Kleist, has long been acknowledged and scrutinized. (1) Much less is known about early attitudes towards German women writers of this period, despite the fact that their work also made its way across the Channel. Novels by Sophie von La Roche, Caroline von Wolzogen and Therese Huber, for instance, all appeared in English translation. In particular, it is noticeable that a number of women writers were represented in the short story anthologies which became so ...