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This essay addresses the cultural influence of French authors Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis and Germaine de Staël on German women writers, in particular Helmina von Chezy. As the Paris-based editor of the journal Franzosische Miscellen (French Miscellanea), Chezy regularly wrote about the latest French literature by women and promoted not only the literature of Genlis, Staël, Sophie Cottin, and George Sand, but also these authors' understanding of themselves as professional artists, as voices of the public sphere, and as women engaged in the capitalist book market. Although Chezy was a prolific writer and lyricist, she never achieved the fame or influence of the French writers. The essay evaluates the strategies Chezy used to style herself after the French writers, considers reasons for Chezy's failure, and argues that German nationalism and the resurgence of political conservatism after the Napoleonic Wars purged the German literary public sphere of the political voices of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the political aspects of fashion in Caroline de la Motte Fouque's `Geschichte der Moden, vom Jahre 1785 bis 1829: als Beytrag zur Geschichte der Zeit.' Discussion of the changes the French revolution brought to the dress code and behavior of the social classes in Fouque's native Prussia; History of fashion according to Caroline Fouque; Contention of Fouque's on French revolution.