Johann Wilhelm Meinhold's MARY SCHWEIDLER, THE AMBER WITCH
Posted by:
Dale Nelson (IP Logged)
Date: 26 October, 2020 07:26PM
I just got an interlibrary loan copy of the 1928 Oxford World's Classics edition of this 1844 English translation by Lady Duff Gordon. (Incidentally, Charles Williams must have been working for the Press, under his revered boss Humphrey Milford, when this book was prepared. Naturally I wonder if he was involved with that.)
I'm going to start a thread for discussion of the novel if anyone's interested. I know Dover reprinted this in a thick paperback with other works years ago, but I'm not sure if their version was the same translation.
It gets off to a nice (pseudo-)scholarly start that fits right in which the manner with which stories by M. R. James & others used to write, the old manuscript found in a church, etc.