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¦» The Suburban Solitude Of The Pichlers...
men of his time to repair , in order to learn pure Latin and polite manners . Parentsknowing that refined and intelligent society
, was always to foe met with at her house , sought admission there for their sons as a high privilege , and often expressed their gratitude
for the advantages thus gained . In 1820 , she pufolished a book of " Prayers , " which was very
well received , and , two years after , a very successful historical novelafterwards translated into Frenchon the siege of Vienna
On her daughter's marriage and subsequent , removal to Prague , _~ her friend Madame Schlegel took up her dwelling in the vacated
apartments and did all that was possible to console her . More effectual was the comfort afforded by a visit to Prague , where ,
though she found society less cheerful and unconstrained than in " Vienna , she made many acquaintances among the noble and
learned , and collected materials for several more historical novels , _* literary pursuits solacing her loneliness till 1826 whento her
great joy , her son-in-law returned with his wife and , child , to dwell again in Vienna .
About this time Madame Pichler received a summons to visit the Archduchess Sophia at the palace , which she had not entered
for fifty years . Being ushered into the very same room , though now no longer hung with sombre grey , into which she had so
often been admitted when a child , she found there the Empress-Mother , who , entering into conversation with her , told her that in
her saddest hours she had found comfort in reading . " Agathocles . " On leavingthe Archduchess presented her with a costly album
in which she , had inscribed with her own hand these words , " That Heaven may repay to Caroline Pichler in rich measure
the beneficial feelings her Agathocles ' has awakened in my heart , and the pure enjoyment I have derived from her other worksis
, the wish of one of her warmest admirers . —Sophie . " The lofty and the lowly indeed vied with each other in rendering
honour to one whose writings interested all minds and all hearts-One daywhen travelling near the scene of her " Hohenberge"f
she found , that a young man , resident in the neighbourhood , had , been standing in the rain for three hoursonly that he might
catch a glimpse of her as she passed by . Every , spot alluded to was sought out and identified ; and when that part of the country
was visited by the Empress Maria Louisa after her return to-Austria , the Imperial lady made sketches with her own hand .
- of the principal scenes described in the story . Some years now went byunmarked by any special eventtill
in 1832 on the death of her , son-in-lawhis widow _. returned with , her children , to the parental roof , and Madame , Pichler henceforth
* One of these , " The Swedes in _Prague , " has been translated into English . vielleicht j * The Jdhrbuch als durch der ihre Literatur Fenden , alludin und Stiffrungen g to this work diirften , remarks die Hohenberge , " I / anger
durch . die gemUtbliche Dichtung unserer Caroline Pichler leben ! "
