Maria Anna Sagar

Cover of the novel The Mistaken Daughters by Maria Anna Sagar, published anonymously in 1771.

Maria Anna Sagar , b. Maria Anna Radoschny (born July 24, 1727 in Prague , † June 4, 1805 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Little is known about Maria Anna Sagar's life. She was the daughter of the first Bohemian Lieutenancy Registrar Radoschny, after whose death she had to hire herself out as a maid in Vienna. In 1752 she married the later castle captain and comedy writer Johann Sagar . Anna Maria Sagar published her novel The confused daughters anonymously, Carolina's diary appeared under the cryptonym "MAS". In addition to Sophie von La Roche's work Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771), Maria Anna Sagar's works are considered the earliest evidence of a German-language novel by women 18th century.

Works

The mistaken daughters, a true story, written in letters by a woman. Gerle, Prague 1771. ( digitized version )
Carolina's diary with no extraordinary acts or just as much as none at all. Gerle, Prague 1774. ( digitized version )

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Sagar, Maria Anna (in the husband's article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 68 f. ( Digitized version ).
Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 3. Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1916, Vol. 4, Section 1. P. 595  f.
Christine Touaillon : The German women's novel of the 18th century. Braumüller, Vienna and Leipzig 1919, pp. 236–242 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Helga Meise: The work of Maria Anna Sagar - constitutional conditions and problems of the novel by women in the 18th century. In: Helga Gallas and Magdalene Heuser (eds.): Investigations into the novel by women. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1990, pp. 79-92.
Brigitte E. Jirku: play, mirror, writing in Maria Anna Sagar's “Karolinen's diary”. In: Colloquia Germanica. Volume 26, Issue 1, 1993, pp. 17-35.
Claire Baldwin: The emergence of the German Novel: Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche and Maria Anna Sagar. Camden House, Rochester 2002.
Michael Wögerbauer: Romány “o ničem”. Pražská spisovatelka Maria Anna Sagarová (1729–1805) a její ženská poetika románu (1771, 1774) [= novels "about nothing". The Prague writer MAS and her feminine poetics of the novel]. In: Jaroslav Lorman, Daniela Tinková: Post tenebras spero lucem. Duchovní tvář českého a moravského osvícenství. Casablanca, Praha 2009, pp. 393-406.

Web links

Wikisource: Maria Anna Sagar - Sources and full texts

References and comments

^ Johann Sagar, in documents also Saager (* 1718 in Agram ; † 1785 in Vienna), GND 140527141
↑ Birgit Schreiber: Sagar, Maria Anna . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . tape 10 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022042-1 , p. 159–160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

personal data
SURNAME	Sagar, Maria Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Radoschny, Maria Anna (maiden name); MAS (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	June 4, 1805
Place of death	Vienna

[Johann_Sagar-1] Johann Sagar, in documents also Saager (* 1718 in Agram ; † 1785 in Vienna), GND 140527141

[Killy-2] Birgit Schreiber: Sagar, Maria Anna . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . tape 10 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022042-1 , p. 159–160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).