HENRIETTA JOANNA WACH VON PAALZOV
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Definitions of HENRIETTA JOANNA WACH VON PAALZOV
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A German story-writer; born at Berlin, 1788; died there, 1847. Among her stories are: "Godwin Castle" (3 vols., 1837); "Saint-Roche" (1839); "Thomas Tyrnau" (1842); "Jakob von der Nees" (1842). Her plots are very skillfully contrived and elaborated.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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