Friederike Brun Reader : Supplement to an Encyclopedia of German Women Writers

This extension of the "Supplements to An Encyclopedia of German Women Writers, Volumes 11" (the autobiography "Wahrheit aus Morgentraumen") and the "Briefe aus Rom" respectively, includes an extensive 100-page selection of Brun's earliest lyric poetry with parallel examples from Matthisson, Baggesen and Goethe; most of her ballads; her songs for Greece; and examples of her religious texts.

Excerpts from her diaries, travelogues and letters, texts concerning the sculptor Thorwaldsen, her friend Madame de Stael and on her daughter Ida's education reveal her reflections on art and social conditions.

Sections on her reception, dedications to her, and a 19th century short biography are also included.

The editor, whose articles on her works and manuscripts since 1985 have brought new insights into this neglected writer, provides a long introduction, a summary of her life and bibliography.

This volume will appeal to all interested in 19th-century writers and German literature in general.