more recent account of Baroness von Tautphoeus states that her novels point to a person of conservative tastes, very well read in English, German and French. She was mistrustful of the modernity of the 19th century and tended to see Bavaria as a refuge for traditional values in a fast-changing world. Her silence in the 33 years that followed her last novel probably reflects a lack of sympathy with events in Bavaria in the latter half of that century. As her obituarist in The New York Times put it, "She always lived a retired life, and had published nothing for many years, and her death seems not to have been regarded in Germany as a matter of news." Notes References Further reading The full text of The Initials can be read here: Retrieved 17 September 2014. 1807 births 1893 deaths Irish women novelists 19th-century Irish women writers 19th-century Irish writers 19th-century Irish novelists