Virtuous society

The Virtuous Society was the female counterpart to the Fruit Bringing Society founded in 1617 . It was donated on September 5, 1619 by Anna Sophia von Anhalt together with other princesses and countesses at Rudolstadt Castle and was reserved for women only. Further founding members were Elisabeth Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and her younger sisters Sophie VI., Anna Sybilla and Dorothea Susanna.

literature

• Linda Maria Koldau : Women - Music - Culture. A manual on the German-speaking area of ​​the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-24505-4 , pp. 301f. ( Excerpt from Google books ).