ARNIM, BETTINA VON


Meaning of ARNIM, BETTINA VON in English

orig. Elisabeth Katharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano

born April 4, 1785, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]

died Jan. 20, 1859, Berlin

German writer.

Her best-known works are reworked records of her correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Karoline von Günderode, and her brother Clemens Brentano , much of it fictitious but written in a brilliantly vivid, uninhibited style.

Bettina von Arnim, engraving after Armgass von Arnim's copy of a miniature by an unknown artist.

Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.

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