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1853–1893
Best known for stories for children and young readers, this German-language writer drew on life in both the United States and Europe. Her work includes fiction set in New York, giving readers a lively glimpse of immigrant and urban experience in the late 1800s.

by Sara Hutzler
Born in St. Louis in 1853 and later active in Berlin, she was a German-American writer whose books and stories were published in German. Library and catalog records confirm her dates as 1853–1893 and identify works including Jung-Amerika, published in 1884.
Reference sources in German describe her as especially known for writing for children and young people. Her life crossed several worlds, and that mix seems to have shaped her writing, including fiction connected with New York life.
She died in Berlin in 1893. Although she is not widely known today, surviving editions and library records show a writer who linked American settings with German-language literature in the nineteenth century.