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PICHLER, KAROLINE (1769-1843)

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PICHLER, KAROLINE (1769-1843) , See also:Austrian novelist, was See also:born at See also:Vienna on the 7th of See also:September 1769, the daughter of Hofrat See also:Franz von Greiner, and married, in 1796, Andreas Pichler, a See also:government See also:official. For many years her See also:salon was the centre of the See also:literary See also:life in the Austrian See also:capital, where she died on the 9th of See also:July 1843. Her See also:early See also:works, See also:Olivier, first published anonymously (1802), Idyllen (1803) and See also:Ruth (1805), though displaying considerable See also:talent, were immature. She made her See also:mark in See also:historical See also:romance, and the first of her novels of this class, See also:Agathocles (18o8), an See also:answer to See also:Gibbon's attack on that See also:hero in the Decline and Fall of the See also:Roman See also:Empire, attained See also:great. popularity. Among her other novels may be mentioned See also:Die Belagerung Wiens (1824); Die Schweden in Prag (1827); Die Wiedereroberung Of ens (1829) and Henriette von See also:England (1832). Her last See also:work was Zeitbilder (184o). The edition of Karoline Pichler's Samtliche Werke (1820—1845) comprises no less than 6o volumes. Her Denkwurdigkeiten aus meinem Leben (4 vols.) was published posthumously in 1844. Aselection of her narratives, Ausgewdhlt Erzahlungen, appeared in 4 vols. in 1894.

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