person
Bettina von Arnim
Bettine
also: Bettine, Bettina Brentano
German Romantic writer (1785--1859) whose girlhood correspondence with Goethe, published as 'Goethe's Correspondence with a Child,' Malte reads; for him she is the supreme example of the woman whose love outgrows its object.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §384 To Bettine
Bettina von Arnim (1785--1859), German Romantic writer; as a girl she conducted the rapturous correspondence with Goethe that she later published as 'Goethe's Correspondence with a Child.' The heading opens a book of those letters, which becomes Malte's meditation on the women who love.