POSSIBLE FORERUNNER OF GOETHE'S WERTHER [LA ROCHE, Sophie von.]
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. Von einer Freundin derselben aus Original-Papieren und andern zuverlässigen Quellen gezogen. Herausgegeben von C. M. Wieland. Erster [–Zweyter] Theil.
First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s first novel, a best seller which brought her fame and recognition throughout Germany, and was translated into French, English, Russian and Dutch. It became a pattern for the genre of the epistolary novel in Germany, and has even been cited as a forerunner of Goethe’s Werther. Few writers have had more influence in the history of women’s writing in Germany. In 1783, continuing in her efforts to foster women’s intellectual development, she published the first German journal for women to be written by a woman, the Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter.
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