Fanny Tarnow

Fanny Tarnow
Fanny Tarnow
	Sketch portrait of Fanny Tarnow
Born	17 December 1779
Died	4 July 1862
Pen name	F.T.
Occupation	Writer
Language	German
Period	1805 – 1841

Franziska Christiane Johanna Friederike "Fanny" Tarnow (17 December 1779, Güstrow – 4 July 1862, Dessau) was a German author. She wrote under the names Fanny Tarnow and F.T.^[1]^[2]

Family background

Fanny Tarnow was the first child of the lawyer and secretary of state in Güstrow David Tarnow, later a Gutsbesitzer or landholder, and his wife, Amalie Justine Holstein.^[3] She grew up in wealthy circles, but was unable to walk well after a terrible fall when she was just four years old. The majority of her childhood was spent at her family home and that of her aunt Wilhelmine von le Fort (1771–1841).^[3] After her father lost his property, the family moved to Neu-Buckow and Fanny became a governess, first at Rügen for four years then at Rohlstorff.

Writing career

In 1805 she began publishing her journals anonymously and made contact with cultural figures including Johann Friedrich Rochlitz, Julius Eduard Hitzig, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rosa Maria Assing, Rahel and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense.^[4] From 1807 to 1812, she was a governess in Wismar and Rankendorf, then until 1815 she went to nurse her ill mother in Neu-Buckow.

From 1816 to 1818, she lived with a childhood friend in Saint Petersburg, where she met Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, August von Kotzebue and Count Jacob Johann Sievers.^[5] This was followed by temporary stays in Berlin and at her sister's house in Lübeck. Fanny and the writer Amalie Schoppe also headed a girls' reformatory in Hamburg. In 1820 Fanny moved to Schandau - during this time she befriended Helmina von Chezy, Elisa von der Recke, Ludwig Tieck, Christoph August Tiedge and countess Egloffstein.^[6] She then temporarily lost her sight due to illness and so in 1829 she moved to stay in Weißenfels with her sister Betty.

Worried friends then selected some of her writings and published then on a subscription basis, raising 5,000 Taler for her. After that she mainly worked translating French and English works into German. From 1841 she lived in Dessau. Tarnow hosted literary salons that attracted writers, intellectuals, and other people of note^[7]

Works

(anonymous:) Alwine von Rosen, in: Journal für deutsche Frauen, 1805 und 1806
Thekla
Natalie. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des weiblichen Herzens, 1812
Thorilde von Adlerstein, oder Frauenherz und Frauenglück. Eine Erzählung aus der großen Welt, 1816
Mädchenherz und Mädchenglück. Erzählungen für Gebildete, 1817
Kleine Erzählungen, 1817
Briefe auf einer Reise nach Petersburg, an Freunde geschrieben, 1819
Lilien. Erzählungen, 4 Bde. 1821/25
Sidoniens Witwenjahre, nach dem Französischen frei bearbeitet, 2 Tle., 1822
Lebensbilder, 2 Bde., 1824
Die Spanier auf Fühnen. Historisches Schauspiel, 1827
Ausgewählte Schriften, 15 Bde., 1830
Zwei Jahre in Petersburg. Aus den Papieren eines alten Diplomaten, 1833
Erzählungen und Novellen, fremde und eigene, 2 Tle., 1833
Reseda, 1837
Spiegelbilder, 1837
Galerie weiblicher Nationalbilder, 2 Tle., 1838
Gesammelte Erzählungen, 4 Bde., 1840–42
Heinrich von England und seine Söhne. Eine alte Sage neu erzählt, 2 Tle., 1842

References

^ Paulus, Dagmar (2020-04-22), "Femininity, Nation, and Nature: Fanny Tarnow's Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg (1819)", Nationalism before the Nation State, Brill, pp. 76–96, ISBN 978-90-04-42610-8, retrieved 2024-03-10
^ Bölte, Amely (13 July 2022). Fanny Tarnow (in German). Germany: Salzwasser-Verlag.
^ ^a ^b Kauffmann Amaral, Pedro. "Fanny Tarnow". schriftstellerinnen--varnhagen-eu.
^ Reinhard Rösler (2000). “Female identity and female self-confidence in texts of popular literature of the early 19th century using the example of Fanny Tarnow.” In: Stepping out of the shadows . Edited by Kurt Erich Schöndorf. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, pp. 127–141.
^ Paulus, Dagmar (2020-04-22), "Femininity, Nation, and Nature: Fanny Tarnow's Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg (1819)", Nationalism before the Nation State, BRILL, pp. 76–96, ISBN 978-90-04-42610-8, retrieved 2024-01-04
^ Ariane Neuhaus-Koch (1990). “Bettine von Arnim in dialogue with Rahel Varnhagen, Amalie von Helvig, Fanny Tarnow and Fanny Lewald”. In this. (Ed.): “The truth will always struggle with the beautiful”. Festschrift for Manfred Winühr on his 60th birthday. Cologne and Vienna 1990, pp. 103–118.
^ Leeder, Karen; Burns, Barbara (2008-04-01). "The Prose Fiction of Louise von François (1817-1893)". The Modern Language Review. 103 (2): 586. doi:10.2307/20467869. ISSN 0026-7937.

Bibliography

(in German) Monika Stranáková: "Es ist hier vieles ganz anders, als man bei uns glaubt…" Fanny Tarnows Reise nach St. Petersburg. In: Christina Ujma: Wege in die Moderne. Reiseliteratur von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern des Vormärz. Bielefeld, 2009. ISBN 978-3-89528-728-2. S. 229-242.
(in German) Birgit Wägenbaur: Die Pathologie der Liebe. Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe um 1800. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1996 (Geschlechterdifferenz & Literatur. Band. 4). ISBN 3-503-03732-2.
(in German) Amely Bölte: Fanny Tarnow. Ein Lebensbild. 1865 (Digitalisat)

External links

Books on and by Fanny Tarnow Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

[1] Paulus, Dagmar (2020-04-22), "Femininity, Nation, and Nature: Fanny Tarnow's Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg (1819)", Nationalism before the Nation State, Brill, pp. 76–96, ISBN 978-90-04-42610-8, retrieved 2024-03-10

[2] Bölte, Amely (13 July 2022). Fanny Tarnow (in German). Germany: Salzwasser-Verlag.

[:0-3] Kauffmann Amaral, Pedro. "Fanny Tarnow". schriftstellerinnen--varnhagen-eu.

[4] Reinhard Rösler (2000). “Female identity and female self-confidence in texts of popular literature of the early 19th century using the example of Fanny Tarnow.” In: Stepping out of the shadows . Edited by Kurt Erich Schöndorf. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, pp. 127–141.

[5] Paulus, Dagmar (2020-04-22), "Femininity, Nation, and Nature: Fanny Tarnow's Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg (1819)", Nationalism before the Nation State, BRILL, pp. 76–96, ISBN 978-90-04-42610-8, retrieved 2024-01-04

[6] Ariane Neuhaus-Koch (1990). “Bettine von Arnim in dialogue with Rahel Varnhagen, Amalie von Helvig, Fanny Tarnow and Fanny Lewald”. In this. (Ed.): “The truth will always struggle with the beautiful”. Festschrift for Manfred Winühr on his 60th birthday. Cologne and Vienna 1990, pp. 103–118.

[7] Leeder, Karen; Burns, Barbara (2008-04-01). "The Prose Fiction of Louise von François (1817-1893)". The Modern Language Review. 103 (2): 586. doi:10.2307/20467869. ISSN 0026-7937.

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