Some German Women and Their Salons
German women living at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century have paved the way to modernity for the female gender in Germany. Mary Hargrave portrays the most important ones, who built their personality and fame by networking through keeping open houses for the noteworthy of their time and keeping contact to other women by letters. Mary Hargrave wrote essayistic texts on history, women and music and is, unfortunately, forgotten today, even though she gives such colourful, well researched and enjoyable pictures of her subjects. Nevertheless, the text contains outdated and discriminatory wording and opinion on gender and "race".
(Summary by AliceStein)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Literary Criticism
Language: English
Keyword(s): women (89), Romanticism (22), authors (19), Goethe (14), schlegel (2), new germany (1), queen luise (1), salons (1)
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 00 | Preface | AliceStein |
00:09:05 |
| Play 01 | Elisabeth Goethe Part 1 | AliceStein |
00:29:38 |
| Play 02 | Elisabeth Goethe Part 2 | AliceStein |
00:20:40 |
| Play 03 | Elisabeth Goethe Part 3 | AliceStein |
00:21:18 |
| Play 04 | The Jewish Salons Introduction | AliceStein |
00:07:46 |
| Play 05 | Henriette Herz Part 1 | AliceStein |
00:27:47 |
| Play 06 | Henriette Herz Part 2 | AliceStein |
00:24:02 |
| Play 07 | Rahel Varnhagen Part 1 | AliceStein |
00:30:28 |
| Play 08 | Rahel Varnhagen Part 2 | AliceStein |
00:32:38 |
| Play 09 | Rahel Varnhagen Part 3 | AliceStein |
00:25:14 |
| Play 10 | Bettina von Arnim Part 1 | AliceStein |
00:23:06 |
| Play 11 | Bettina von Arnim Part 2 | AliceStein |
00:21:41 |
| Play 12 | Bettina von Arnim Part 3 | AliceStein |
00:26:37 |
| Play 13 | Queen Luise Part 1 | AliceStein |
00:20:50 |
| Play 14 | Queen Luise Part 2 | AliceStein |
00:19:14 |
| Play 15 | Queen Luise Part 3 | AliceStein |
00:19:43 |
| Play 16 | Caroline Schlegel Part 1 | AliceStein |
00:23:02 |
| Play 17 | Caroline Schlegel Part 2 | AliceStein |
00:18:33 |
| Play 18 | Charlotte Stieglitz | AliceStein |
00:14:03 |