Amalie Winter

Amalie Karoline Charlotte Wilhelmine Henriette von Seebach was born in Weimar, Germany, 1802.

In early life, she became acquainted with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and her taste and mind were formed under his influence.

In 1821, the day she turned 19, she married Ludwig Albrecht Joseph Gabriel Freiherr von Groß (1793–1857), who later became privy financial advisor of Saxony.

In 1838, she published "Pictures of German Life,” and afterwards novelettes: Pictures of Women; Recollections of a Leaden Soldier, for children from ages 8 to 10 (1840); Recollections of a Berlin Doll, for children from ages 5 to 10 and their mothers (1844); Fairytales of Nature; and The Diadem and the Scepter.

She also translated English works of Lady Blessington (1841), Charles Dickens (1841) and Thomas De Quincey (1840) into German.