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Marie Bloede (29 September 1821 - 12 March 1870) was an American author of German descent, who also published under the pseudonym Marie Westland.〔 ==Biography== Bloede was born Marie Antoinette Franziska Jungnitz in Wrocław (then Breslau), Silesia,〔 to Johanna Maria Friederike Jungnitz (''née'' Schmieder) and Karl Ferdinand Jungnitz (a Justice of the Supreme Court of Silesia).〔Bloede. - p.22.〕 Her half-brother, Friedrich von Sallet, was a poet, an intense liberal in his political views. He died in 1843. Bloede shared his poetical gifts and his liberal sympathies. She married early, and in opposition to the wishes of her family, in circa 1844 around the age of 23.〔 Her husband, Gustavas "Gustav" Blöede (23 September 1814-1 May 1888〔), born in Dresden to Auguste Sophia Juliane (''née'' von Langen) and Karl August Blöede,〔Bloede. - p.1.〕 was a physician. Gustav became and member of the city council of Dresden during the revolution of 1848.〔 He was foremost in the liberal ranks, had to flee Dresden to avoid arrest, made his way to Brussels and then disappeared.〔Bloede. - p.36.〕 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.〔〔New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957. Ancestry.com.〕 She published ''Princess Sheba, Vittoria, Godiva, Three narrative poems'' in 1868 and ''Enoch Arden v. Tennyson'' in 1869.〔 The Bloedes' home was frequented by noted writers, among them Bayard Taylor, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Thomas Aldrich and Richard Henry Stoddard. Marie Bloede's poems and articles, both in English and German, attracted attention. She also assisted her husband, he was the editor of the ''New-Yorker Demokrat'', a daily Republican paper, using her literary skills. Bloede died in Brooklyn, New York.〔 Gustav died in Catonsville, Maryland.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Bloede」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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