Elise Polko

Elise Vogel Polko (31 January 1823 in Schloss Wackerbarth – 15 May 1899 in Munich) was a German novelist.

She was a sister of Eduard Vogel, the African explorer, and attained considerable fame as a public singer, she performed in Leipzig, Dresden, Halle and Berlin.

Shortly after the death of her terminally ill son, her husband also died in February 1887, leaving her in debt.

[1][2] Her Musikalische Märchen (Musical tales; 1852) was translated into English, as were others of her books.

She published Ein Frauenleben (A woman's life; 1854), Erinnerungen an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Recollections of Felix Mendelssohn; 1868), Aus dem Jahre 1870, Conversations (1872), Neues Märchenbuch (1884), and other works.