. The Open court. ee Wolf, the wife of a merchant in first sight she was not particularly attractive nor was she brilliantin conversation, but she had a strong character and impressed herpersonality upon all with whom she came in contact. Her con-nection with Goethe has not been sufficiently appreciated presumablybecause two years before her death (1818) she burned all the lettersshe had received from him. We know, however, that Goethe sub-mitted to her most of his new productions, among them Iphigenie,Tasso and Wilhelm Meister, and he appears to have been greatlyinfluenced by her ju
. The Open court. ee Wolf, the wife of a merchant in first sight she was not particularly attractive nor was she brilliantin conversation, but she had a strong character and impressed herpersonality upon all with whom she came in contact. Her con-nection with Goethe has not been sufficiently appreciated presumablybecause two years before her death (1818) she burned all the lettersshe had received from him. We know, however, that Goethe sub-mitted to her most of his new productions, among them Iphigenie,Tasso and Wilhelm Meister, and he appears to have been greatlyinfluenced by her judgment. He calls her die Herdiche, my cordialfriend. He is known to have met her on only two occasions after-wards, in 1782 and again on October 23, 1797. Herder character-izes her briefly as follows: Frau Schulthess, to be brief, is a she-man (Mdnnin). She GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. 95 says almost nothing, and acts without any show of verbiage. Sheis not beautiful, nor well educated, only strong and firm without. BARBARA SCHULTHESS. After a painting by Tischbein (1781) in possession of Dr. Denzler-Ernst of Zurich. coarseness. She is stern and proud without spreading herself, anexcellent woman and a splendid mother. Her silence is instructivecriticism. To me she is a monitor and a staff. .. .She is only useful 96 THE OPEN COURT. through silence. She only receives and does not give from purehumility, from true pride.
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