15. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Fig. 25 Johann Joseph Sprick, Portrait of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, 1838. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Droste-H%C3%BClshoff_2.jpg, public domain. How typical are German women writers of the age in which they lived? There is Bettina von Arnim, who did not find her way to a public career as a writer until quite late, when the Romantic movement as such might be deemed to be over. With Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, chronologically at least, we find an exac.