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Die Geschwister [The Siblings]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · 1787

InferredFuller names Goethe's one-act play Die Geschwister (The Siblings) through Clarke's translation, playfully complaining that Clarke gave it to Fanny Kemble rather than to her; Hudspeth identified Clarke had his translation privately printed.

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Documented 1833

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1844
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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“But you have given Miss Kemble your translation of Geschwister and passed me by.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller names Goethe's one-act play Die Geschwister (The Siblings) through Clarke's translation, playfully complaining that Clarke gave it to Fanny Kemble rather than to her; Hudspeth identified Clarke had his translation privately printed.