Ellen Frothingham
Ellen Frothingham (25 March 1835 – 1902) worked in the United States as a translator of German-language works into English.
Biography
[edit]She was born in Boston, the daughter of Nathaniel Frothingham. She studied German literature and was well known for her translations into English of Lessing's Nathan der Weise (Kuno Fischer's edition; New York, 1868), Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea (1870), Berthold Auerbach's Edelweiss (1871), Lessing's Laokoon (1874), and Franz Grillparzer's Sappho (1876).
Notes
[edit] | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (October 2019) |
References
[edit]- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
[edit]- Works by Ellen Frothingham at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Ellen Frothingham at the Internet Archive
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