Marie Bloede
{{Short description|American author}}
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| pseudonym = Marie Westland
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| birth_place = Wrocław (then Breslau), Silesia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1870|3|12|1821|9|29|df=yes}}
| death_place = Brooklyn, New York
| occupation = Author, poet
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Marie Bloede (29 September 1821{{citation |author=Pataky, Sophie |year=1898 |title=Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder (Glossary of German Women of the Spring) |publisher=C. Pataky |language=German }} – 12 March 1870{{citation |title=The Journey: Victor G. Bloede, His Forebears & Successors |author=Bloede, Victor C. |year=1996 |publisher=Gateway Press |page=62 }}) was an American author of German descent, who also published under the pseudonym Marie Westland.
Early life
Bloede was born Marie Antoinette Franziska Jungnitz{{citation |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=4 |year=1934 |publisher=James Terry White |page=445 }} in Wrocław (then Breslau), Silesia, to Johanna Maria Friederike Jungnitz (née Schmieder) and Karl Ferdinand Jungnitz (a Justice of the Supreme Court of Silesia).Bloede. - p.22.
Her half-brother,{{Cite DAB|title=Bloede, Gertrude|year=1929|author=Sarah G. Bowerman}} Friedrich von Sallet, was a poet, an intense liberal in his political views. He died in 1843. Bloede shared his poetical gifts and his liberal sympathies.
Career
She married early, and in opposition to the wishes of her family, in circa 1844 around the age of 23. Her husband, Gustavas "Gustav" Blöede (23 September 1814 – 1 May 1888), born in Dresden to Auguste Sophia Juliane (née von Langen) and Karl August Blöede,Bloede. - p.1. was a physician.{{citation |author=Hall, Clayton Colman |title=Baltimore: Biography |page=615 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Co. |year=1912 }} Gustav became and member of the city council of Dresden during the revolution of 1848. He was foremost in the liberal ranks, had to flee Dresden to avoid arrest, made his way to Brussels and then disappeared.Bloede. - p.36. The family (Marie, Gustav, and their three children, Gertrude, Kate and Victor) reunited and sailed from Antwerp on 14 July 1850, aboard the Julia Howard, arriving in New York on 21 August.{{citation |title=The Forty-Eighters: Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848 |author=Zucker, Adolf Eduard |year=1950 |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=280 }}New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957. Ancestry.com.
She published Princess Sheba, Vittoria, Godiva, Three narrative poems in 1868 and Enoch Arden v. Tennyson in 1869.
The Bloedes' home was frequented by noted writers, among them Bayard Taylor, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Thomas Aldrich and Richard Henry Stoddard.{{Cite ANB|title=Bloede, Gertrude|author=Ann Perkins |id=1600137}} Marie Bloede's poems and articles, both in English and German, attracted attention. She also assisted her husband, he was the editor of the New-Yorker Demokrat, a daily Republican paper, using her literary skills.
Bloede died in Brooklyn, New York. Gustav died in Catonsville, Maryland.
Family
Gustav and Marie Bloede's daughters included the poet Gertrude Bloede (1845–1905), Kate (1848–1891; who married the American artist, naturalist and teacher Abbott Handerson Thayer), and Indiana "Indie" (1854–1936;Bloede. - p.105. married Samuel Thomas King, a New York City area physician and surgeon{{citation |title=Who's who in New York City and State, Issue 3 |author=Hamersly, Lewis Randolph |page=785 |publisher=L.R. Hamersly Co. |year=1907 }}). Their son was the chemist and businessman Victor Gustav Bloede (1849–1937).
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Category:19th-century American writers
Category:German-American Forty-Eighters
Category:19th-century American women writers