Charlotte von Ahlefeld

Charlotte von Ahlefeld.

Charlotte Sophie Luise Wilhelmine von Ahlefeld (December 6, 1781 in Ottmannshausen (a part of Berlstedt, Thuringia) – July 27, 1849 in Teplitz, Bohemia) was a German novelist.

Von Ahlefeld was born near Erfurt as Charlotte von Seebach, to a noble family of Hanover. She began to write at a young age, with her first novel appearing in 1797, and attracted positive comments from Goethe. She married Johann Ritter von Ahlefeld, a landowner from Schleswig, on May 21, 1798. They separated in 1807, but she continued to live in Schleswig until 1821, when she moved to Weimar and befriended Charlotte von Stein. In 1846 she went to the spa town of Teplitz in Bohemia due to declining health, and died there in 1849. She wrote some of her novels under the pen name Elise Selbig, and some poetry under the name Natalia.

Selected novels

• Liebe und Trennung (1797)
• Marie Müller (1799)
• Erna (1820)
• Felicitas (1826)

References

• "Ahlefeld, Charlotte Sophie Luise Wilhelmine". The American Cyclopaedia. 1. 1873. pp. 211. http://books.google.com/books?id=3cdPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA211. 
• (German) Karl Goedeke (1875). "Ahlefeldt, Charlotte von". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. 1. pp. 160. http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Ahlefeldt,_Charlotte_von. 

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Name	Ahlefeld, Charlotte Von
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Date of birth	1781
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Date of death	1849
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