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162 CAROLINE PICHLER.
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afflictionadded to anxieties albout war , effectually prevented much time being , devoted to the Muses ; but his the wife quiet sat " evenings at and home her , "
when Herr Pichler read aloud , while spinning , mother all the more plied perhaps the knitting from the pins , contrast were a they time afforded of much to enj the oyment gay ,
assemblies in which they had been accustomed to pass most of their evening hours during Herr Greiner limited ' s life circle . occasional writer
of Hitherto fugitive verses only known , the crisis within of Madame a Pichler ' as s literary an life was now at handHer husband one day in turning over some of his wife ' s
. papers tudes" happened a series of to meet ers with which a collection had been of written MSS . entitled on various " Simili topics - pap
seen during strong b , y l the that urged hei lad ght y their . of On her publication re friendshi ading them p ; with but he Josep thoug was so hine h much for , and years struck hitherto past that onl her he y
short pieces y had appeared in periodicals , she shrunk from appearing before the world as the authoress of a book , remembering the reply
once made to herself by a learned friend whom she had been urging is to like appear a fool in print who : thru " M sts y friend his hand , the out person of a who window publishes * he puts a book it
, in the power of every passer-by to give him a blow . " At last she agreed to let the opinion of some literary friends decide the
question . A jury , consisting of Haschka and several other eminent men , was empanelled , and as on reading the work , their verdict was
decidedly in favour of its publication , the book was duly brought out in the soon year afterwards 1800 , and very ted well the received idea of . writing Thus a encouraged romantic , story a dream , the
first but by no means promp the last so inspired , for many of Madame Pichler ' s novels afterwards took their rise from a scene , a character ,
or a situation which had first presented itself to her in visions of the nihtthe result on the present occasion was the publication
of the romance g ; of " Olivier . " Then the recovery of the Archduke Charles ( often called " the Saviour of Germany" ) from a serious
illnessturned her thoughts again to verse , and called forth a atriotic , poemfor which she received an autograph letter of thanks
from p the noble , convalescent . The famine in Vienna , and the relief afforded by the plans of
the famous Count Humford , leading her Muse into the unwonted ion of the kitchenwere commemorated in an idyll under the not
reg , least very that poeticall she y thoug sounding ht no title subject of too " Rumford homely Soup for verse * " proving , and that at
even a soup-ladle might on occasion take a dip from the fountain of Castaly , without profaning those hallowed waters . ;
( To he continued ?)
162 Caroline Pichler.
162 CAROLINE PICHLER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/18/
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