Annis Lee Furness Wister (9 October 1830,
Philadelphia
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- 15 November 1908, Philadelphia) was a translator who resided in the United States. She specialized in translations from German to English.
Biography
She was the daughter of the Rev.
William Henry Furness
William Henry Furness (April 20, 1802 – January 30, 1896) was an American clergyman, theologian, Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and reformer.
Biography
Furness was born in Boston, where he attended the Boston Latin School and developed a lif ...
, by whom she was educated. Early in life, she began to translate stories from German. She married Dr. Caspar Wister in 1854. He was a descendant of
Caspar Wistar, a glassmaker who came to the United States in 1717. Dr. Wister died in 1888. Annis Lee Wister made many translations of note. Her translations were issued in a uniform edition of 30 volumes in 1888.
Works
Among her translations are:
* Georg Blum and Ludwig Wahl
''Seaside and Fireside Fairies''(Philadelphia, 1864)
*
E. Marlitt
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 18251887), a popular German novelist.
Biography
She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to s ...
,
The Old Mamselle's Secret' (1868)
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' (1868)
*
E. Marlitt
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 18251887), a popular German novelist.
Biography
She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to s ...
,
The Countess Gisela' (1860)
*
E. Marlitt
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 18251887), a popular German novelist.
Biography
She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to s ...
,
The Little Moorland Princess' (1873)
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E. Marlitt
E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (December 5, 18251887), a popular German novelist.
Biography
She was born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the , who adopted her in 1841 and sent her to Vienna to s ...
,
The Second Wife' (1874)
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Wilhelmine von Hillern,
Only a Girl, or a Physician for the Soul' (1870)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer (1 November 1816 – 6 July 1877), was a successful German author.
Life
Hackländer was born in Burtscheid, now part of the city of Aachen, Germany. He was orphaned at the age of 12 ...
, ''Enchanting and Enchanted'' (1871)
*
Adeline von Volckhausen, ''Why Did He Not Die, Or, the Child from the Ebraergang '' (1871)
*
Adelheid von Auer, ''It Is the Fashion'' (1872)
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Fanny Lewald
Fanny Lewald (21 March 1811 – 5 August 1889) was a German novelist and essayist and a women's rights activist.
Life and career
Fanny Lewald was born at Königsberg in East Prussia in 1811 to a bourgeois, Jewish family. She was taken out of sc ...
, ''Hulda; or, The Deliverer'' (1874)
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Golo Raimund''From hand to hand''(1882)
With
Frederic Henry Hedge
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, she published ''Metrical Translations and Poems'' (1888).
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1830 births
1908 deaths
German–English translators
Writers from Philadelphia
19th-century American translators
19th-century American women writers