ABSTRACT
She had begun publishing anonymously in 1731 at age eighteen, four years before her marriage but two years after becoming acquainted with Gottsched. After marriage, her life is marked by no clearly identifiable major nonliterary events; she remained childless. For her husband, who was himself a phenomenally productive writer, she did a prodigious amount of translating along with article writing and book reviewing for his periodicals. This activity has earned her the label of being Germany's first important woman journalist. Her plays and translations of plays were very successful, performed frequently for years after her death. Her polemics reveal her fervent participation in the literary quarrels that marked and then marred her husband's domination of the German literature of his day.
