. The Open court. ANNA ELISABETH SCHONEMANN : GOETHE S LILI. ried Georg Michael Frank von Lichtenfels, surnamed La Roche. Asan author she is best known by Rosalies Letters to Her FriendMariane. She had two beautiful daughters. While in Ehrenbreit-stein Goethe passed the time with Maximiliana in a harmless butentertaining flirtation, before she was married to an older andjealous husband, Mr. Brentano. Frau von La Roche removed with GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. 93 her husband to Speyer and later to Offenbach where she died Feb-ruary 18, LILI S Kaulbach. During the winter of 17
. The Open court. ANNA ELISABETH SCHONEMANN : GOETHE S LILI. ried Georg Michael Frank von Lichtenfels, surnamed La Roche. Asan author she is best known by Rosalies Letters to Her FriendMariane. She had two beautiful daughters. While in Ehrenbreit-stein Goethe passed the time with Maximiliana in a harmless butentertaining flirtation, before she was married to an older andjealous husband, Mr. Brentano. Frau von La Roche removed with GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. 93 her husband to Speyer and later to Offenbach where she died Feb-ruary 18, LILI S Kaulbach. During the winter of 1774-75 Goethe became acquainted withAnna Elisabeth Schonemann, the daughter of a rich banker, a pretty 94 THE OPEN COURT. g-irl of sixteen but a spoiled child and a flirt. He called her Lili,and devoted several poems to her which are exceedingly poeticalbut at the same time betray his dissatisfaction with the charms ofthe fascinating young lady. In Lilis Park he compares her manylovers to a menagerie and himself to a bear who does not fit intothe circle of his mistress at the Schonemann residence. In April 1775 Goethe was officially engaged to Lili, but the en-gagement lasted only into May; since both families were opposedto it, it was soon revoked. Three years later she was married tothe Strassburg banker Bernhard Friedrich von Tiirckheim. Shedied near Strassburg in 1817. The poems New Love, New Life; To Belinde, and LilisPark are dedicated to her, and some later songs made in Weimar,Hunters Evening Song and To a Golden Heart Goethe
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