A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Schoppe, Amalia von
SCHOPPE, AMALIA VON,
Whose maiden name was Weise, is a German novel-writer who has distinguished herself for the number of her works, comprising About one hundred and fifty volumes. We know little of her private history except from her own pen. In 1838 she published "Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben," which is said to contain many incidents of her own life, and pourtraying her own character under that of her heroine, Clementine. "If so," says a British critic, "she presents herself to the public as a woman of no ordinary character; Intelligent but unimpassioned; of a frank and energetic disposition, and devoid of prudery and false sentiment" Her first work was published' in 1829, and as she has written at the rate of six or seven volumes per year, it is not strange that the same critic should observe that "Madame von Schoppe is a woman of talent, though her works are hastily planned and imperfectly finished." Her historical tales show extensive reading; among these, the collection entitled "Myoiotis," published in 1841, attracted considerable attention. A son of Madame von Schoppe is also an author.