. The Open court. BETTINA BRENTANO. Later Frau von Arnim. Enlarged from a miniature by A. vonAchim Baerwalde. 110 THE OPEN COURT. Goethe had corresponded with Bettina and some time after hisdeath she pubhshed letters that purported to be their correspondence,under the title Goethes Correspondence with a Child. Whateverof this book may be genuine, we know that it is greatly embellishedand shows Goethe in a wrong light. Poems addressed to Minna. MINNA HERZLIEB. Herzlieb are appropriated by Bettina. and Goethe is made to expresssentiments which can not have been in the orisfinal letters. Minna He
. The Open court. BETTINA BRENTANO. Later Frau von Arnim. Enlarged from a miniature by A. vonAchim Baerwalde. 110 THE OPEN COURT. Goethe had corresponded with Bettina and some time after hisdeath she pubhshed letters that purported to be their correspondence,under the title Goethes Correspondence with a Child. Whateverof this book may be genuine, we know that it is greatly embellishedand shows Goethe in a wrong light. Poems addressed to Minna. MINNA HERZLIEB. Herzlieb are appropriated by Bettina. and Goethe is made to expresssentiments which can not have been in the orisfinal letters. Minna Herzlieb (born May 22, 1789, in Zulichau) was edu-cated in the house of the publisher Frommel at Jena, where Goethemade her acquaintance and entertained a fatherly friendship for her. GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. Ill We may assume that he loved her. though the word Un-e wasnever spoken between them. It is beHeved that she furnished themain features for the character of Ottihe in the Elective Affinitieswhich he planned at that time. She was married in 1821 to Pro-fessor Walch of Jena but later separated from her Inisband. Shesuffered from melancholia and died July 10, 1865, in a sanatariumat Goerlitz. At the celebration of the lirst anniversar\ of the battle ofLeipsic in 1814, Goethe visited his native city, where he met a rich
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