Ellen Frothingham [SEP] date of death
Ellen Frothingham
Ellen Frothingham (25 March 1835 - 1902) worked in the United States as a translator of German-language works into English.
Biography.
She was born in Boston, the daughter of Nathaniel Frothingham. She studied German literature, and was well known for her translations into English of Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" (Kuno Fischer's edition; New York, 1868), Goethe's "Hermann und Dorothea" (1870), Berthold Auerbach's "Edelweiss" (1871), Lessing
married Ann Gorham Brooks, daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks and sister of the wives of Edward Everett and Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
They had three children, all born in Boston. Octavius Brooks Frothingham was born November 26, 1822, and became an author. Ward Brooks Frothingham was born November 16, 1828, and resided for a time in Burlington, serving in two town offices. Ellen Frothingham was born March 25, 1835 and became a translator (German into English).
Ann Frothingham died on July 4