E. Marlitt is the pseudonym

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 of Eugenie John (1825–1887), a popular German

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 novelist, born at Arnstadt

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. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness

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 was the Princess

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 of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

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, who sent her to Vienna

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 to study music. She became deaf

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, lived for 11 years at court, and then, withdrawing to Arnstadt, began there her novelistic career. Die zwölf Apostel (1865), Goldelse (1868), Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell (1868), Thüringer Erzählungen (1869), Reichsgräfin Gisela (1870), Heideprinzeßchen (1872), Die zweite Frau (1874), and other novels are familiar in English

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 translations. Her collected works appeared in 10 volumes (Leipzig, 1888-90; second edition, 1891-94).

She published several works in the German weekly magazine "Die Gartenlaube

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" (such as "Reichsgräfin Gisela" in 1869).

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• "Reichsgräfin Gisela" in Die Gartenlaube
  Die Gartenlaube
  Die Gartenlaube Illustrirtes Familienblatt , was a forerunner of modern magazines, and the first major success of the German weekly. The name means "The Garden Arbor Family Journal" but the magazine is known worldwide as "Die Gartenlaube"...
  
  , January 1869, Wikimedia Commons, webpage: R.Gisela.