Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was born in 1797 at Hülshoff Castle, near Münster, into one of the oldest noble families of Westphalia. Through her mother's family, the Haxthausens, she frequented at Bökerhof castle a Romantic circle linked to the Brothers Grimm. From 1826 she lived with her mother and her sister at the Rüschhaus, near Münster, then stayed at Meersburg, on Lake Constance, with her brother-in-law. Her collection of poems of 1844, published by Cotta under her full name, brought her success. Also a composer, she died at Meersburg in 1848.

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• Short storiesThe Jew's BeechDie JudenbucheAnnette von Droste-Hülshoff · 1842LiteraturePublic domain