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.