. The Open court. now inA sheltered place,There grows it everAnd blooms apace. Goethe married Christiana October 19, 1806. In 1797 Caroline Jagemann, distinguished both as a singer andan actress, filled an engagement at the Weimar theater. She wasborn at Weiiuar on January 15, 1777, and began her career on thestage at Mannheim at the age of fifteen. Four years later she re-turned to her native city to take a leading place in both the operaand the drama. She was not only of unusual beauty and queenly 108 THE OPEN COURT. bearing, but was also distinguished by rare talent and gained thefavor of t
. The Open court. now inA sheltered place,There grows it everAnd blooms apace. Goethe married Christiana October 19, 1806. In 1797 Caroline Jagemann, distinguished both as a singer andan actress, filled an engagement at the Weimar theater. She wasborn at Weiiuar on January 15, 1777, and began her career on thestage at Mannheim at the age of fifteen. Four years later she re-turned to her native city to take a leading place in both the operaand the drama. She was not only of unusual beauty and queenly 108 THE OPEN COURT. bearing, but was also distinguished by rare talent and gained thefavor of the Duke, who conferred nobility upon her under the nameof Frau von Heygendorf. Strange to say she is the only womanof Goethes acquaintance who was hostile to him. She used her in-fluence with the Duke to intrigue against the poet and caused himso much annoyance that he considered it a relief when in 1817 heresigned his position as director of the theater. In April, 1807, Bettina Brcntano (later Frau von Arnim) the. LUDWIG JOACHIM VON ARNIM,KNOWN AS ACHIM VON ARNIM. CLEMENS BRENTANO. daughter of Maximiliana von La Roche, and a sister of the poetClemens Brentano, visited Goethe and was well received. Beingan exceedingly pretty girl of a romantic disposition, she enteredsoon into a friendship with the famous poet which continued forsome time; but she caused him so much annoyance through her ec-centricities that Goethe was glad of an opportunity to break withher. When once in 1811 she behaved disrespectfully to his wife,Frau Geheimerath Goethe, he forbade Bettina his house. GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. 109
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