CHARLOTTE VON KALB
\ʃˈɑːlət vˈɒn kˈalb], \ʃˈɑːlət vˈɒn kˈalb], \ʃ_ˈɑː_l_ə_t v_ˈɒ_n k_ˈa_l_b]\
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A German memoir-writer; born at Waltershausen, in Grabfeld, July 25, 1761; died at Berlin, May 12, 1843. Best known as the friend of Schiller, Goethe, and Richter. She was a lovely and devoted woman. Schiller's poems "The Conflict" and "Resignation" refer to her. The character of Linda in Richter's "Titan" was drawn from her. Her romance "Cornelia" is in places incomprehensible, which may be said also of "Charlotte" (memoirs, 1879). "Letters to Richter and his Wife" appeared in 1882. She wrote a "History of the American War of Independence".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Quinones
- Hydrocarbon rings which contain two moieties position. They can be substituted in any position except at the ketone groups.