Leila Gardner von Meister (; 1871 - 1957) was an Anglo-American author.
Life and career
Trapmann was born in 1871 in
Sunbury-on-Thames
Sunbury-on-Thames (or commonly Sunbury) is a suburban town on the north bank of the River Thames in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, centred southwest of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex, in 1965 Sunbury and other ...
to German-American
plantation owners from
Charleston
Charleston most commonly refers to:
* Charleston, South Carolina
* Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital
* Charleston (dance)
Charleston may also refer to:
Places Australia
* Charleston, South Australia
Canada
* Charleston, Newfoundlan ...
,
South Carolina.
Trapmann wrote and illustrated ''The Spoofah and the Antidote'' in 1898.
In 1900, Trapmann married German politician
Karl Wilhelm von Meister
Karl Wilhelm von Meister (3 February 1863 – 14 February 1935) was a German politician and diplomat.
Life and career
Meister was born as the eldest son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister, one of the co-founders of Hoechst AG, and his wife Marie ...
at St Peters Church in
London.
They celebrated their silver wedding anniversary 25 years later.
Trapmann and Meister had their first child,
Friedrich Wilhelm von Meister on 19 July 1903.
telegrammed the family expressing his wish to become the child's godson.
Trapmann died in 1957 in the
United States.
Works
*''The Spoofah and the Antidote'' (1898)
*''On Board the "Deutschland"'' (1925)
*''Gathered Yesterdays'' (1968, posthumous)
References
External links
Meister, Leila von Hessian Biography.
1871 births
1957 deaths
19th-century English women writers
19th-century English writers
British diarists
British emigrants to the United States
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