Marie Bloede (29 September 1821 – 12 March 1870) was an American author of German descent, who also published under the pseudonym Marie Westland.

Early life

Bloede was born Marie Antoinette Franziska Jungnitz in

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(then Breslau),

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, to Johanna Maria Friederike Jungnitz (''née'' Schmieder) and Karl Ferdinand Jungnitz (a Justice of the Supreme Court of Silesia).Bloede. - p.22. Her half-brother, Friedrich von Sallet, was a poet, an intense liberal in his political views. He died in 1843. Bloede shared his poetical gifts and his liberal sympathies.

Career

She married early, and in opposition to the wishes of her family, in circa 1844 around the age of 23. Her husband, Gustavas "Gustav" Blöede (23 September 1814 – 1 May 1888), born in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

to Auguste Sophia Juliane (''née'' von Langen) and Karl August Blöede,Bloede. - p.1. was a physician. Gustav became and member of the city council of Dresden during the

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. He was foremost in the liberal ranks, had to flee Dresden to avoid arrest, made his way to Brussels and then disappeared.Bloede. - p.36. The family (Marie, Gustav, and their three children, Gertrude, Kate and Victor) reunited and sailed from Antwerp on 14 July 1850, aboard the ''Julia Howard'', arriving in New York on 21 August. She published ''Princess Sheba, Vittoria, Godiva, Three narrative poems'' in 1868 and ''Enoch Arden v. Tennyson'' in 1869. The Bloedes' home was frequented by noted writers, among them

Bayard Taylor Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record ...

, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Thomas Aldrich and Richard Henry Stoddard. Marie Bloede's poems and articles, both in English and German, attracted attention. She also assisted her husband, he was the editor of the ''New-Yorker Demokrat'', a daily Republican paper, using her literary skills. Bloede died in

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. Gustav died in

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Family

Gustav and Marie Bloede's daughters included the poet

Gertrude Bloede Gertrude Bloede (10 August 1845 – 14 August 1905) was a United States poet. She used the pen name “Stuart Sterne” for her publications. Biography Bloede was born in Dresden, Germany. Her father and mother were refugees who fled Germany aft ...

(1845–1905), Kate (1848–1891; who married the American artist, naturalist and teacher

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), and Indiana "Indie" (1854–1936;Bloede. - p.105. married Samuel Thomas King, a New York City area physician and surgeon). Their son was the chemist and businessman Victor Gustav Bloede (1849–1937).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bloede, Marie 1821 births 1870 deaths 19th-century American writers German-American Forty-Eighters 19th-century American women writers Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers