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Freiin Anna Elisabeth Franzisca Adolphina Wilhelmina Ludovica von Droste zu Hülshoff, better known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), is Germany’s most popular nineteenth-century female poet and author. A childhood prodigy, she found true artistic freedom and produced her finest work in middle age. Formerly regarded a realist, she is admired today for the daring of her late Romantic poems. A multifaceted genius, her oeuvre includes verse, ballads, epics, plays, folktales, novellas, and musical compositions.
Introduction
Born at Castle Hülshoff in Catholic, rural Westphalia, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff grew up a lively, precocious child of an ancient aristocratic family (Gödden 1994, 23–85). Educated by her mother and allowed to study the books in her father’s excellent library, she wrote verse from the age of 7 (Grywatch 2018, 2–7). At 16, her high spirits shocked Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, who were visiting Gut Bökendorf, the home of her distinguished maternal...
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Further Reading
Duwe, Karen. 2018. Fräulein Nettes kurzer Sommer. Miss Nette’s Brief Summer. Berlin: Gallani Verlag.
Maurer, Doris. 2001. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Eine Biographie. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: A Biography. Meersburg: Turm Verlag.
Sichelschmidt, Gustav. 1990. Allein mit meinem Zauberwort: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Eine Biographie. Alone With My Magic Spell: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. A Biography. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag.
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Lenckos, E. (2021). Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11945-4_42-1
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