Amalie Winter was the

pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

used by Amalie Karoline Charlotte Wilhelmine Henriette von Seebach (1802-1879), a German poet and novelist.

Biography

Amalie Karoline Charlotte Wilhelmine Henriette von Seebach was born in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

, Germany, 1802. Her father was Prussian major general Friedrich Johann Christian Heinrich von Seebach (1767-1847); her mother was Henriette Sophie Wilhelmine von Seebach, née von Stein-Nordheim (1773-1817). In early life, she became acquainted with

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...

, and her taste and mind were formed under his influence. In 1821, the day she turned 19, she married Ludwig Albrecht Joseph Gabriel Freiherr von Groß (1793-1857), who later became privy financial advisor of Saxony.''Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser (Gotha Genealogical Handbook of the Baronial Families)'' Jg. 25 (1875), S. 246 f.
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. At the age of 27, her writing appeared as contributions to a popular Weimar journal ''Chaos'' (1829-1832). In 1838, she published "Pictures of German Life,” and afterwards novelettes: ''Pictures of Women''; ''Recollections of a Leaden Soldier, for children from ages 8 to 10'' (1840); ''Recollections of a Berlin Doll, for children from ages 5 to 10 and their mothers'' (1844); ''Fairytales of Nature''; and ''The Diadem and the Scepter''. She wrote a great many works for children and poems. She also translated English works of Lady Blessington (1841), Charles Dickens (1841) and Thomas De Quincey (1840) into German.

References

Sources

*''A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography'' (1857) by Henry Gardiner Adams *''Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises'' (1885) by William Cushing *''FrauenGestalten Weimar-Jena um 1800. Ein bio-bibliographisches Lexikon.'' Edited by Stefanie Freyer, Katrin Horn, Nicole Grochowina. Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2009.

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