Henriette Paalzow

Henriette von Paalzow, née Wach (1788, in Berlin – 30 October 1847, in 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[edit]

(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[edit]

^ 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

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[1] Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger, Die Berliner Salons: mit historisch-literarischen Spaziergänge, Walter de Gruyter, 2000, p.171

[2] 'Paalzow, Henriette', in Henry & Mary Garland, eds., The Oxford Companion to German Literature, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1997, p.646

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