Caroline Abbot
Caroline Luxburg Abbot , b. Fay (born September 28, 1839 in Berlin , † after 1914) was a German writer .
Life
Caroline Abbot was born in Berlin to American parents. Her father Theodor S. Fay worked as a legation secretary in Berlin. When he as ambassador to Bern was appointed, followed the family in 1853 in the Switzerland . Caroline Abbot lived in Bern until she married the American Dr. Abbot. With him she returned to Berlin. Her husband died in 1866 and only after his death did Caroline Abbot turn to writing.
Her first novel Schild und Pfeil , for which Emil Frommel wrote the foreword and Otto Funcke the epilogue, was a great success, so that Caroline Abbot published the following works under the pseudonym "Author of Schild und Pfeil".
Works
- Shield and Arrow (1888)
- Look into the heart and the world (1891)
- Round trip. From the papers of a doctor (1899)
- All sorts of things. Short stories (1902)
- Colorful each other! Pictures from my life (1914)
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 23.
- Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 1.
Web links
- Literature by and about Caroline Abbot in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abbot, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abbot, Caroline Luxburg (full name); Fay, Caroline Luxburg (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1914 |