Talk:Therese Albertine Luise Robinson

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Kiyoweap in topic John Pickering

John Pickering edit

The Encyclopedia Americana (wikisource edition) merely says she "translated into German Pickering's work on the Indian tongues".
The correct source is Pickering (1830-1831) "Indian languages of North America," printed in Encyclopedia Americana vol. 6 (1830) 6:569-75; (1831) 6:581-600
Talvj's foreword refers to the "Encyklopaedia Americana".
Pickering (1818) "On the Adoption of a Uniform Orthography for the Indian Languages of North America", pp.319-360] in: Memoirs of the American Acadmey of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 4 is a different work, and not Talvj's source, as some previous editor had guessed. So mention of that work will be deleted.--Kiyoweap (talk) 04:24, 23 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Frauenzimmer edit

The pseudonym may not have been as "self-deprecating" as the article states. While Frauenzimmer developed supercilious and even comically-mocking connotations in the course of the 19th century, it could be used fairly neutrally pre-1830, to designate a female individual, and roughly equivalent to the English “a female” (as opposed to “a woman” - eine Frau).