[7] He was foremost in the liberal ranks, had to flee Dresden to avoid arrest, made his way to Brussels and then disappeared.
[8] The family (Marie, Gustav, and their three children, Gertrude, Kate and Victor) reunited and sailed from Antwerp on 14 July 1850, aboard the Julia Howard, arriving in New York on 21 August.
[8][9][10] She published Princess Sheba, Vittoria, Godiva, Three narrative poems in 1868 and Enoch Arden v. Tennyson in 1869.
[1] The Bloedes' home was frequented by noted writers, among them Bayard Taylor, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Thomas Aldrich and Richard Henry Stoddard.
[4] Gustav and Marie Bloede's daughters included the poet Gertrude Bloede (1845–1905), Kate (1848–1891; who married the American artist, naturalist and teacher Abbott Handerson Thayer), and Indiana "Indie" (1854–1936;[12] married Samuel Thomas King, a New York City area physician and surgeon[13]).