Amélie Linz (1824–1904) was a

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author who wrote books for children and adults.

Biography

She was born at

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. She married an officer of engineers and four years after his death (1870) settled in

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. Her literary work, largely under the influence of

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, published under the name Amélie Godin, includes the novels ''Eine Katastrophe'' (1862), ''Frauenliebe und Leben.. (1874), ''Gräfin Lenore'' (1882), Freudvoll und Leidvoll'' (1883), ''Fahre wohl'' (1886), ''Mutter und Sohn '' (1897), and ''Dora Reval'' (1901). She wrote collections of

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s, such as ''Märchen von einer Mutter erdacht'' (fourth edition, 1860), ''Slavische Märchen'' (1879), ''Polnische Volksmärchen'' (1880), ''Grosses Märchenbuch'' (fourth edition, 1886), ''Märchenkranz'', and others.

References

* German children's writers 1824 births 1904 deaths German women novelists People from Bamberg German women children's writers 19th-century German novelists 19th-century German women writers {{Germany-writer-stub