Blanche Willis Howard

Blanche Willis Howard ( born July 21, 1847 in Bangor ( Maine), † October 7, 1898 in Munich ) was an American writer who has spent the most productive years of their lives in Germany.

Life

Blanche Willis Howard comes from an old established family in Bangor ( Maine), where she spent her childhood and youth, and also went to school. After high school graduation she attended for a year a private school in New York City. 1875 she succeeded to the gambling in a coastal village in her home province novel One Summer at once the literary breakthrough. Shortly after, she went to Germany, where she worked as a journalist, travel and novelist and educator. She settled in Stuttgart, where he married in 1890 physician to the King of Württemberg, Julius Teuffel of what the New York Times was worth a message. Her husband died in 1896 and two years later succumbed to Blanche Willis Howard in Munich a disease. Her last years she spent together with her sons in Stuttgart and on Guernsey. Was Buried Blanche Willis of Teuffel in Heidelberg.

The multi-talented author - it was regarded as a perfect housewife, was an excellent swimmer and pianist and participated in various charitable institutions - was a welcome guest in the higher circles of Stuttgart and Munich. Among their circle of acquaintances included musicians such as Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, and writers such as Paul Heyse, with whom she had a closer friendship.

Work

Blanche Willis Howard has released a total of 14 books, mostly novels, most of which were written in Germany and sent for publication to publishers in Boston and New York.

Your most important works were One Year Abroad (Boston, 1877; German translation Schweinfurth, 2008); Aunt Serena ( Boston, 1881); Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast (Boston, 1884; German translation Stuttgart, 1889); Aulney Tower (Boston, 1886); Tony, the Maid ( one first published in Harper 's Magazine story ); The Open Door (Boston and New York, 1889) and the novella collection Seven on the Highway ( Boston, 1897). Only after her death were Dionysius the Weaver's Heart's Desire (New York, 1899), The Garden of Eden (New York, 1900) and The humming top: or, debit and credit in the next world (New York, 1903) published. Together with the Scottish author William Sharp, she wrote the epistolary novel A Fellowe and his Wife ( Boston and New York, 1892). In addition to her literary work of its numerous journalistic activities are to mention how her second book One Year abroad serving as a preparation weekly correspondence posts on European issues for the Boston Evening Transcript, a many years conducted regular column in Collier's Weekly, or their editors work for the 1875 founded by Ferdinand Freiligrath, moved in Stuttgart English Hallberger 's Illustrated Magazine.