Elise Polko
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Elise Polko.
Elise Vogel Polko (31 January 1822 in Leipzig – 15 May 1899 in Munich) was a German novelist.
Biography
She was a sister of Eduard Vogel, the African explorer, and attained considerable fame as a public singer, but retired from the stage after her marriage to Polko, a scientist, and thenceforth devoted herself to literature, in which field she won much notice.
Works
Her Musikalische Märchen (Musical tales; 1852) was translated into English, as were others of her books. She published Ein Frauenleben (A woman's life; 1854), Erinnerungen an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Recollections of Felix Mendelssohn; 1868), Aus dem Jahre 1870, Conversations (1872), Neues Märchenbuch (1884), and other works.
Notes
References
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Polko, Elise Vogel". Encyclopedia Americana.
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