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Frances James Külpe
1862–1936
A German-Baltic writer with a life that stretched from the Russian Empire to Switzerland, she drew on sharp observation and a wide personal world. Her fiction is especially remembered for stories set in the Baltic lands and for writing shaped by the unrest of the early 20th century.
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Der Silbergarten. Der Stein des Pietro. Zwei Erzählungen
by Frances James Külpe
About the author
Born Frances James in 1862, she was the daughter of the British industrialist John Benisson James and Marie Hentzelt, who came from the German-Baltic world. She was educated first by private tutors, then at girls' schools in Mitau and Dorpat, and later trained as a governess. After further musical study, she spent time in Saint Petersburg and Paris before turning to literary work.
She published as Frances Külpe and is generally described as a German-Baltic writer. Her known works include Wera Minajew, Die Insel des Lebens, Drei Menschen, Darthe Semmit, and the collection Rote Tage: Baltische Novellen aus der Revolutionszeit, which points to one of her recurring subjects: Baltic life under pressure, especially in times of political upheaval.
She died in 1936 in Muralto, near Locarno, in Switzerland. A suitable verified portrait image was not clearly available from the pages I could confirm, so no profile image is included here.