Anna Lauermannová-Mikšová

Lauermannová-Mikšová was born on 15 December 1852 in Prague-Old Town as the younger daughter of the Prague physician and obstetrician Mikuláš Miksche.

She attended art classes led by Amálie Mánesová, sister of famous painter Josef Mánes where she met her life-long friend Marie Riegerová, daughter of the head of Czech politics, František Ladislav Rieger.

I was already so tired from the previous sleepless nights that I fell asleep even with his lamentations - he poured water on me to wake me up.

According to Lauermann's recollections, he said: “You have a bad mouth, but you have what the French call politesse du bon coeur, And you also have a lot of space, so hopefully it will work out.”[3]: 50  The women of Rieger's family (wife and daughters) were rather introverted and did not seek out company.

She was talkative and sociable, liked people, but also social gossip, and agreed to open her house to Czech writers and intellectuals.

[4] She first lived in Montreux, Switzerland, but after a bad experience with a Swiss doctor who predicted she would die, she traveled to Nice, France.

Lauermann was friends with a number of leading writers, such as Julius Zeyer, Gabriela Preissová, Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Karel Čapek Otakar Theer, and many others.

Their emotional involvement was mutual, although they were meeting only at social gatherings and exchanged letters, but with long breaks it lasted over fifteen years.

She despised his numerous love affairs that the director had with actresses and dancers of the troupe and believed that Šubert was "somewhat devoted to carnal pleasures and she, in her strict ethics, would perhaps be uncomfortable for him"[3]: 65  Lauermann called him Don Juan and “erotic”.

[1][4] She was also a writer, using pen name Felix Téver, inspired by her happy time in Rome at the Tiber river (Tevere in Italian).