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Blackwell, Jeannine, 'Sophie von La Roche' in Dictionary of Literary Biography: The Age of Goethe, ed. James Hardin and Christoph Schweitzer, New York, Bruccoli Clark and Gale, 1990.
Craig, Charlotte, 'Sophie von La Roche's Enlightened Anglophilia', Germanic Notes, 8 (1977), 34-40.
Joeres, Ruth-Ellen, '"That girl is an entirely different character!" Yes, but is she a feminist? Observations on Sophia von La Roche’s Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim' in German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed. Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes, Bloomington, Indiana U.P., 1986; pp. 137-56.
Intent on recovering a 'feminist message' from a notoriously conservative text, focuses on the strong-minded heroine and usefully examines the key concepts associated with her, education, self-love, and the dualism of mind and heart.
La Roche, Sophie von, The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim, ed. James Lynn, London, Pickering & Chatto, 1991.
The excellent Introduction discusses La Roche's life, the historical significance of the novel, and the relative lack of success of her later publications, and includes a chronology and bibliography. This edition uses the translation published by Joseph Collyer in 1776, but restores and translates sections cut by Collyer, including the preface and notes by Wieland, which were important in the initial reception of the novel in Germany. A number of omitted passages are included in the useful explanatory notes.
---, Sophie in England, trans. Clare Williams, London, Jonathan Cape, 1933.
---, Two Sisters in Bitter Healing: German Women Writers, 1770-1830, ed. Jeannine Blackwell and Susanne Zantop, Nebraska, 1991.
Mielke, Andreas, 'Sophie von La Roche: A Pioneering Novelist', Modern Language Studies, 18 (1988), pp. 112-119.
Petschauer, Peter, 'Sophie von La Roche, Novelist Between Reason and Emotion,' Germanic Review, 57 (Spring, 1982), pp.70-7.
A patronising and obtuse account of La Roche's career, elaborating the widely held traditional perception of her 'failure' to move beyond an enlightenment attachment to reason to fully-fledged Romanticism.
Winkle, Sally, Woman as Bourgeois Ideal: A Study of Sophie von La Roche's 'Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim' and Goethe's 'Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers', Bern and New York, Peter Land, 1988.
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