Wilhelmine von Hillern was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 actress and novelist.

Biography

She was the daughter of the novelist Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer

Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer

Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer was a German actress and writer.She was the daughter of an estate agent named Pfeiffer. She received her early training at the Munich court theatre, and in 1818 began to play leading tragic roles at various theatres...

. She was brought up in Berlin

Berlin

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, became an actress at Gotha

Gotha (town)

Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the district of Gotha.- History :The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when it was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne as Villa Gotaha . Its importance derives from having been chosen in...

 (1854), and married the prominent jurist von Hillern at Freiburg im Breisgau in 1857. Her husband died 8 December 1882. After that, she lived chiefly at Oberammergau

Oberammergau

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 and Tutzing

Tutzing

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.

Writings

Her principal novels and short stories were produced during the 1860's and 1870's. One of them, Höher als die Kirche (Higher than the Church; a tale of Freiburg im Breisgau in Reformation

Protestant Reformation

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 days, 1877) was quite well known in America by reason of the fact that it was frequently read as a text by students of elementary German

German language

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. It is a comparatively insignificant work, however, by no means so important as the novels, Ein Arzt der Seele (A doctor for the soul; a satire of bluestockings, Berlin 1869), Die Geyer-Wally (Wally the vulture, Berlin 1875), Und sie kommt doch (And she's coming, Berlin 1879), and Ein Blick ins Weite (Black Forest

Black Forest

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 sketches, 1897). One of her novels, Only a Girl, was translated into English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 by Annis Lee Wister

Annis Lee Wister

Annis Lee Furness Wister was a translator who resided in the United States. She specialized in translations from German to English.-Biography:...

in 1870.