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Augusta von Goldstein
1764–1837
An early 19th-century German writer from Breslau, she wrote fiction and drama shaped by aristocratic life, personal upheaval, and a sharp feel for social expectations.
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Adelaide: Wahrscheinlich nur ein Roman
by Augusta von Goldstein
About the author
Augusta von Goldstein was a German writer born in Breslau on February 20, 1764, and she died there on February 18, 1837. Sources identify her under several names, including Augusta von Wallenrodt and Augusta von Fölsch, reflecting different stages of her life.
She came from a noble family and is remembered as a novelist, playwright, and also an educator. Her life included two marriages, both of which ended unhappily, and that unsettled personal history seems to sit in the background of the worlds she wrote about.
Her surviving works include the play Klara von Leuenstein and the novel Adelaide, first printed in 1807. Today she is one of those lesser-known authors whose work offers a glimpse into German literary life around the turn of the 19th century.