English critic and biographer, born in Hamburg, Germany, on the 25th of March 1846; removed to England as a child at the age of four; a good linguist, she contributed not only to periodicals in English, but to some, in German and Italian. Her best books are Stories in Precious Stones (1873); Schopenhauer (1876); Lessing (1878); Half-Hours with Foreign Novelists (1880); Tales from the Edda (1882), illustrated by Kate Greenaway; The Epic of the Kings (1882), a free version of Firdawsī, which Alma-Tadema illustrated; Maria Edgeworth (1883); The Hanse Towns (1889), and editions of Goldoni’s plays and of the Pentamerone.
