Word: vulpius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl Remains." Goethe explained what he meant by this when, to the horror of his admirers, he took Christiane Vulpius, a simple girl who earned her living by making artificial flowers, to bed & board with him. Almost illiterate ("She has not read a line of all my works," said Goethe), Christiane not only loved Goethe but delighted him by her absolute refusal to be anything but' what nature had intended her to be. She bore him several children. It was the hidden, human Goethe, warm behind the icy mask, who told his friend Johann Herder: "If you continue...