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Author: La Roche, Sophie von

Pseudonyms:
Spouse/other names:Gutermann, Maria Sophie
Gender:female
Year of birth:1730
Year of death:1807
About her personal situation:Standardizingsvdjan14 Origin • Place of birth : Kaufbeuren • Place(s) of residence: Not yet checked • Place of death: Offenbach National identity • Nationality : Germany • First language(s) : German Marital status : - Married | widowed Number of children : Not yet checked Social class : - Not yet checked Education: - Not yet checked Religion - Not yet checked

Countries:Germany
Languages:German
Relations to other authors: Grandmother of Arnim, Bettina von

Friend of Bouée, Marie-Elisabeth

About her professional situation:Standardizingsvdjan14 Authorial attribution: - Not yet checked Profession(s) and other activities : - Traveller - Travel writer - Journalist - Fiction writer Language(s) in which she wrote : - German Collaboration/connections with male authors : - Wieland Financial aspects of her career: - Not yet checked Memberships: - Not yet checked
Elements of bibliography:MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "in 1771 when her children were nearly grown up she published anonymously the epistolary Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim, the first women's novel in Germany". - Mark Lehmstedt, Deutsche Literatur von Frauen. Berlin, Directmedia 2001 (Dig. Bibliothek 45 - CD-rom) - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 704. Cf. - Briefe Goethe's an Sophie von La Roche und Bettina Brentano. Berlin, 1879. - Neue Briefe vornehmlich an Sophie von La Roche Stuttgart, 1894.
Websites: Biographie Gutenberg projekt
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Editors: Marleen Dek (update on 12 December 2009)
Emma van den Eijnde (update on 22 May 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 06 January 2014)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 06 January 2014)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 06 January 2014)

Works written by this author

E 1 *Sophie von La Roche, the author ()
E 2 Briefe an Lina, als Mädchen (1790)
E 3 Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771)
E 4 Geschichte von Miss Lony (1789)
E 5 Journal einer Reise durch Frankreich (1787)
E 6 Melusinens Sommerabende (1806)
E 7 Neuere Moralische Erzählungen (1786)
E 8 Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter (1783)
E 9 Rosalia und Cleberg auf dem Lande (1791)
E 10 Rosaliens Briefe an ihre Freundin Marianne von St** (1781)
E 11 Schönes Bild der Resignation (1795)
E 12 Tagebuch einer Reise durch Holland und England (1791)
E 13 Tagebuch einer Reise durch die Schweiz (1787)

Authors read by this author

Xreception 1 Boccage, Anne-Marie du &&&   -   Lettres sur l'Angleterre, la Hollande et l'Italie
Xreception 2 Bouée, Marie-Elisabeth   -   Réponses à démesler, ou Essai d'une manière d'exercer l'attention
Xreception 3 Krüdener, Varvara Juliana von   -   Valérie
Xreception 4 Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne Marie   -   Magasin des enfants
Xreception 5 Staël, Germaine de   -   Delphine