Henriette Paalzow

Henriette Paalzow, 1840

Henriette von Paalzow, née Wach (1788, Berlin – 30 October 1847, Berlin) was a German historical novelist.

Henriette Wach was the sister of the painter Karl Wilhelm Wach.^[1] She married a Prussian officer, Major Paalzow, in 1816, though the marriage was dissolved in 1821. Her historical novels were compared to those of Walter Scott.^[2]

Works

(anon.) Godwie-Castle, 3 vols, 1838
St. Roche, 3 vols, 1839. Translated into English by James Justinian Morier as St. Roche. A romance, from the German, 1847
Thomas Thurnau, 3 vols, 1843. Translated into English by Mary Howitt as The citizen of Prage, 1846.
Jakob van der Rees, 1844

References

↑ Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger, Die Berliner Salons: mit historisch-literarischen Spaziergänge, Walter de Gruyter, 2000, p.171
↑ 'Paalzow, Henriette', in Henry & Mary Garland, eds., The Oxford Companion to German Literature, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1997, p.646

External links

Works by or about Henriette Paalzow in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 20420967 LCCN: nr98031137 ISNI: 0000 0000 4838 178X GND: 11601122X

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