Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paranormal fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The Amber Witch
Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paranormal fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The Amber Witch
Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Witchcraft)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Amber Witch
Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Witchcraft)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Wilhelm Meinhold, 'The Amber Witch'. Translated by Lady Duff Gordon
Author: Barbara BurnsPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1781880956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Wilhelm Meinhold's Gothic romance Maria Schweidler: Die Bernsteinhexe (1844) was a seminal German text in the literary landscape of Victorian England. The 1846 English translation by Lady Duff Gordon, entitled The Amber Witch, enjoyed widespread popular success, and Meinhold's suspenseful tale of a guileless young woman, unjustly accused of witchcraft, was hailed as the leading German novel of its day. Written in the style of a seventeenth-century chronicle, the story appealed to a readership which identified in Meinhold's work echoes of Daniel Defoe, Oliver Goldsmith and Walter Scott. This volume makes available for the first time in a critical edition a literary translation which transformed the German text into a cult classic in English, and suggests ways in which this work resonated with trends in Victorian culture. Duff Gordon's accomplished rendering of what was perceived as an untranslatable text made Meinhold's novel accessible to new generations of readers. Affording an insight into the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and the superstition and miscarriages of justice which marked the peak of the witch-hunting period in Early Modern Europe, this translation should generate continuing momentum and impact for Meinhold's original German novel.
Mary Schweidler, the amber witch
Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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"Mary Schweidler, the amber witch" by Wilhelm Meinhold is set during the Thirty Years' War. The purported author, Reverend Abraham Schweidler, almost loses his only child, Maria, to a plot by a rejected suitor, Sheriff Appelmann, who has accused Maria of practicing witchcraft. In this he was aided by an evil and jealous woman of the neighborhood. After a trial and under threat of the most dire torture, Maria, wholly innocent of the crime, confesses. While on her way to the stake, she is rescued by a courageous young nobleman who loves her and who exposes the evil plot against her.
Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch
Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch
Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch
Author: Johann Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The Amber Witch: the Most Interesting Trial for Witchcraft Ever Known. Edited from a Defective Manuscript of Her Father, Abraham Schweidler. Translated from the German
Author: Johann Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Amber Witch
Author: Wilhelm MeinholdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pomerania (Poland and Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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