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Translated from German by Christa Baguss Britt (1991)

As far as plots go, to my C21st century eyes, this novel, while being great fun, is pretty preposterous. But as far as German literary history is concerned, it is rather significant. The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim was the first German novel written by a woman and the first Bildungsroman.

In an age when women did not write novels, but took care of domestic correspondence, it comes as no surprise that Sophie van La Roche chose to write an epistolary novel, albeit not not one in which the letter writers are writing to each other. There are a number of narrators here, the most important being Lady Sophia Sternheim herself, Lord Derby and Lord Seymour. Yes, not one, but two English aristocrats, and Lady Sophia herself has English blood running through her veins. This was the age when Englishness was held to be a virtue, when Samuel Richardson’s sentimental novels were the best sellers of the day. And it is very much in that sentimental mode that The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim was conceived. Prepare yourself for a virtuous, if not downright saintly, heroine, a dastardly villain (Lord Derby), and a good guy who is not afraid to let his emotions show – once he has decided to show them. (Lord Seymour).

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