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CAROLINE PICHXER. 231
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¦» The Suburban Solitude Of The Pichlers...
her work , until told long afterwards by Weber , that it had , unknown to herselfbeen twice set to music in Germany . Another
, , written to order , proved unsuitable , and of two dramatic 2 _ieees which were next produced , the more important one was for
_some time forbidden to appear at all , on the ground of being likely to excite popular feeling , and was subsequently so altered
as to be entirely spoilt . At this time she had become so accustomed ~ to versification , that it flowed more readily from her pen than
prose , and even when writing a letter she had to be on her guard or she would have spontaneously deviated into rhyme or measure .
Her nervous system now began to suffer a little from the constant strain upon it . The death of Korner too affected her deeply
, though in losing him she gained another friend , a common sorrow bringing her into sympathy with Madame Humboldt , to -whom
the young poet had also been very dear , and with whom henceforward a thoroughly amicable relation was established .
A new topic was now agitating the public mind . The yoke of a foreign political ruler haying been broken , many began to
think that it would be well to throw off also the fetters of foreign fashion , . and a love for the romantic middle ages having been
lately aroused hy the writings of the Schlegels , La Motte Fouque , and others , a wish arose to revert to the ancient German costume
and adopt it as a national dress , especially when , on a / e / e being , held during Carnival , wherein all the guests appeared in _medigeval
. garb , every one was charmed by the picturesque effect and forced to confess its superiority over stiff modern attire . Madame Pichler
took up the subject most zealously , wrote an article to advocate the change , in the first journal of fashion of the day , and also some
verses , which she had intended to recite at a masked ball , where -she and her daughter were to appear in antique costume ,
representing themselves as having woke up after a sleep of three hundred years ; but the state of her health prevented her design in this respect
" being carried out , and the movement seems ultimately to have died away .
A sadder subject soon claimed all her thoughts , * in 1815 - she lost her mother at the age of seventy-five . Madame Greiner
¦ . retained stroke which her faculties caused , her unimp death aired was to broug the ht last on . b The y the par excite alytic
ment of having read to her , a work on animal magnetism . With solemnized spirit , Madame P ., after this loss , determined to follow
. more strictly than she had hitherto done , the duties imposed by her creed . She sought a spiritual adviserand after long search
, at length found one through whose ministrations , continued for many years , she gained much strength and consolation . But
devotion did not interrupt study , nor did she shun company , but rather sought to make her social influence beneficial to _pthers
_, succeeding so well , that at this period she compared hersj _& _li to
those Roman matrons to whom Cicero recommended the _'^ ming'
Caroline Pichxer. 231
CAROLINE PICHXER . 231
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/15/
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