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See also:MARLITT, E ., the See also:pseudonym of See also:EUGENIE See also:JOHN (1825-1887), See also:German novelist, who was See also:born at See also:Arnstadt in Thuringia, the daughter of a See also:merchant, on the 5th of See also:December 1825. By her musical See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent she attracted the See also:notice of the reigning princess
of Schwarzburg-See also:Sondershausen, who provided for her training as a See also:singer at the See also:Vienna See also:Conservatoire. After three years' study she made a successful See also:stage debut, but was compelled in consequence of deafness to abandon this career. She then became reader and travelling See also:companion to her patroness, and her See also:life at the See also:court and on her many travels furnished her with material for her novels. In 1863 she resigned her See also:post, and then lived with her See also:brother at Arnstadt until her See also:death on the 22nd of See also:June 1887.
Her first novel, See also:Die zwolf Apostel, was published in the Gartenlaube in 1865 and this was followed in 1866 by Goldelse (23rd ed., 189o), with which she established her See also:literary reputation. Among others of her novels may be mentioned Blaubart (1866) ; Das Geheimnis der See also:alten Mamsell (1867; 13th ed., 1888); Reichsgrafin Gisela (1869; 9th ed., 19o0), Das Heideprinzesschen (1871; 8th ed., 1888) and See also:Im Hause See also:des Kommerzienrats (1877; 5th ed., 1891). All these See also:works are directed against social prejudices, but, although attractively written, are deficient in higher literary qualities and See also:appeal mostly to juvenile readers.
E. Marlitt's Gesammelte Romane and Novellen were published in ro volumes (1888—189o; 2nd ed., 1891—1894), to which is appended a See also:biographical memoir.
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