A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Twierlein, Aderkeid von

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4121213A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Twierlein, Aderkeid von

TWIERLEIN, ADERKEID VON,

A German poetess, (her maiden name was Stolterforth,) was bom at Eisenach, September 12th., 1800. She was made a royal Bavarian Canoness in a convent on the Rhine, and became afterwards the wife of the privy councillor Baron von Twierlein. She resides at present at Geissenheim, in the Rbeingau. The characteristics of her poetic writings are tender and lowly feelings and great thoughtfulness, combined with a very elegant diction. Among the best of her productions we may count "Stolzenfels," (Castle Proudrock) and the epic "Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons."