ABSTRACT
Lenngren: 1754-1817, poems (1984). "The Portraits," "The Boy and His Playthings," and "Castle and Cottage" [respectively, "Portràtterne," 1796; "Gossen och leksakerna," 1798; and "Slottet och kojan," 1800], in Charles Wharton Stork, Anthology of Swedish Lyrics from 1750 to 1915 (New York, 1917). "Family Portraits" [Portràtterne"], in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poets and Poetry of Europe (Philadelphia, 1845). (This version also appears, the translator's name unmentioned, in N. Clemmons Hunt [éd.], Poetry of Other Lands, Philadelphia, 1883.)
Kathy Saranpa Anstine
Madame Le Prince de Beaumont was a popular novelist and a prolific writer of educational works for women and children, Christian apologetics, and moral tales that were widely read throughout Europe and America between 1750 and c. 1830.
