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Annette Von Droste-Huelshoff and the Biedermeier Narrative
“Annette von Droste-Huelshoff and the Biedermeier Narrative” relates the aesthetics of the German Biedermeier period (1815-1848) to the life story of writer Annette von Droste-Huelshoff (1797-1848) and to her texts “Ledwina” (fragment/1820), “The Marl-Pit” (poem/1841), “The Jew’s Beech” (novella/1842) and “The Spiritual Year” (poetry/1851). Before all else, the Biedermeier cultivated the inner self through domesticity …