Louise von François

Marie Louise von François ( * June 27, 1817 in Herzberg (Elster ); † September 25, 1893 in White Rock ) was a German storyteller and writer.

Life

Marie Louise von François comes from a Huguenot family and grew up in a wealthy family. After the death of her father, the Prussian Major Friedrich von François, she lost due to the negligence of her guardian her assets and then a time he lived in the house of her uncle, the Prussian general Karl von François. Your engagement with Count Goertz was released from financial hardship. After the death of his uncle in 1855 to her mother to Weissenfels returned, she began her mostly anonymous writing career with short stories in smaller Cotta morning paper for educated items. The impoverished materially, intellectually but richly appointed nobles lived from writing. Their stories from Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia show the exact observer, important events of their time, it reflects in a very special way resist. From the beginning of the 1860s until the death of her parents, she lived in Weissenfels and wrote here their main work The last Reckenburg, a family novel, which was taken on the part of criticism with the greatest recognition.

Your tomb is located in the cemetery III (now cemetery) in Weissenfels. Your house is now privately owned. A showroom is dedicated to the poet and her work.

Works

• The last Reckenburg. Novel. Sn, Berlin 1871 ( preprint in: German Roman -Zeitung, Berlin 1870, ZDB - ID 512944-8 ). . Vol 1 Janke, Berlin 1871 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive ). ; Vol 2 Janke, Berlin, 1871. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• Complete edition, Schreiter, Berlin 1927, full text online.

Collections of short stories

• Selected Short Stories (Berlin 1868, 2 volumes)
• Narratives (Braunschweig 1871, 2 volumes)
• Hell Städt and other stories (Berlin 1874, 3 volumes)
• Nature and grace, along with other stories (Berlin 1875, 3 volumes)
• Phosphorus elder. At the feet of the monarch. Spemann, Stuttgart 1881 -. Edition 1887, DC Heath, Boston, full text online.
• Judith Kluswirtin. Amendment (first in " Selected Short Stories ", Berlin 1868) (Stuttgart 1883)

More

• History of ugly. Braunschweig 1871
• The heir of Saldeck. Braunschweig 1871
• The golden wedding. Narrative.
• Anton Bettelheim (ed.): Louise von François and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. An exchange of letters. Second, enlarged edition. Association of Scientific Publishers, Berlin 1920 -. Fulltext online.
• Joachim Jahn (ed.): Forgotten History ( n ). Volume 1: From the province of Saxony and Thuringia. Dingsda -Verlag, cross- ford, 1991, ISBN 3-928498-01-0. ( Contains among others the text Napoleon in Weissenfels ).
• Potsdam, a spring letter and other prose from Brandenburg. Dingsda -Verlag cross- ford 1992, ISBN 3-928498-16-9.
• The Anniversary and Other Stories.
• Miss Mutchen and her house Maier.
• On the history of my great grandfather. amendment
• At the feet of the monarch. amendment
• Behind the cathedral. amendment
• A formality.