Louise von Gall

Louise von Gall (19 September 1815, Darmstadt – 16 March 1855, Augsburg) was a nineteenth-century German bluestocking novelist and social critic.

She studied Byron and Shakespeare and was tutored in English, French and Italian; then at the age of fifteen boarded at a school in the Schenkendorfstraße in Mannheim.

They spent the summer of 1842 together in Sankt Goar, where the Freiligrath's circle included German writers and the American author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[7] In 1852 they bought a family property at Sassenberg in Warendorf, but Louise Schücking felt alien and unhappy there, as a Protestant in a strict and unintellectual Catholic environment.

She denounced the caste system from which she sprang, [and] did not shrink from making public her thoughts on matters of liberty and justice for all, including the rights of women".

[11] The substance of each is the relationship between women from aristocratic or privileged backgrounds and their male counterparts, their insistence on thinking and judging for themselves, and their hope and right of participation in personal and social encounters.