Fanny Tarnow

Fanny Tarnow, origin. Franziska Johanna Christiane Friederike Tarnow ( born December 17, 1779 Güstrow † July 4, 1862 in Dessau; pseudonyms Fanny, FT) was a German writer.

Life

Fanny Tarnow was the first child of the lawyer and Secretary of State in Gustrow, subsequent landowner, David Tarnow and his wife Justine Amalie nee von Holstein. She grew up in wealthy and sophisticated circles, as a result of a fall, but since she was four years was unable to walk. After the loss of wealth of the father, the family moved to New Buckow. Fanny Tarnow was governess, first on Rügen (four years), and later on Rohlstorff. She began 1805 in various journals to publish anonymously and established under other contacts to Friedrich Rochlitz, Julius Eduard Hitzig, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rosa Maria Assing, Rahel Varnhagen von Ense and Karl August. From 1807 to 1812 she worked as a governess in Wismar and Rankendorf. Until 1815 she used her ill mother in New Buckow. From 1816 to 1818 she lived with her ​​childhood friend in Petersburg. There she had dealing with Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, August Kotzebue and Count Johann Jacob Sievers. This was followed by temporary stays in Berlin and the sister in Lübeck. With the writer Amalie Schoppe directs them then an educational institution for girls in Hamburg. 1820 she moved to Schandau. At that time she was with Helmina von Chezy, friends Elisa von der Recke, Ludwig Tieck, Christoph August Tiedge and Countess Egloff stone. As Fanny Tarnow temporarily forfeited by a disease her eyesight, she moved in 1829 to her sister Betty to Weissenfels. Friends worried then output a selection of her writings on a subscription basis, which earned her 5000 dollars. After that, she worked primarily as a translator ( from English and French ). From 1841 she lived in Dessau.

Works

  • (anonymous :) Alwine von Rosen, in: Journal for German women in 1805 and 1806
  • Thekla
  • Natalie. A contribution to the history of the female heart, 1812
  • Thorilde of Adlerstein, or woman's heart and woman happiness. A story from the great world, 1816
  • Girls Heart and girls happiness. Stories for Educated, 1817
  • Small stories, 1817
  • Letters written on a trip to St. Petersburg, to friends, 1819 ( digitized from the holdings of the Institute of East and Southeast European Studies )
  • Lilies. Narratives, 4 vols 1821/25
  • Sidonie's widow years, freely edited by the French, 2 Tle, 1822
  • Life images, 2 vols, 1824
  • The Spaniards on Funen. Historical drama, 1827
  • Selected Writings, 15 vols, 1830
  • Two Years in St. Petersburg. From the papers of an old diplomat, 1833
  • Stories and novellas, foreign and own 2 Tle, 1833
  • Reseda, 1837
  • Mirror images of 1837
  • National Gallery of female images, Tle 2, 1838
  • Collected stories, 4 vols, 1840-42
  • Henry of England and his sons. An old legend retold, 2 Tle, 1842
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