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Copyright

John Claiborne Isbell;

Published On

2025-04-17

Page Range

pp. 301–302

Language

  • English

Print Length

2 pages

13. Writers from the Swiss Confederation

Chapter of: Women Writers in the Romantic Age(pp. 301–302)
This chapter reviews 4 women writers, 1776-1848, from Switzerland, writing either in French or in German, though with ties to a variety of other countries, notably the Netherlands and France. Writers here range form the wife of the French prime minister to a governess who went insane, and their genre choices also vary, from memoir to novel to theatre to lyric poetry.