Charlotta Dorothea Biehl is the best-known Danish woman writer and translator of the eighteenth century. She stands apart from her female contemporaries in terms of her extensive output in many genres. Most of her works were published during her lifetime, some in two or three editions and in German translations, although part of her literary production was published posthumously. Biehl was especially innovative in her approach to playwriting and the epistolary novel, a genre with widespread appeal across large parts of eighteenth-century Europe. As a dramatist she was Ludvig Holberg's successor in supplying comedies for the Danish stage, and from 1764 to 1772 she was both the most significant and, by and large, the only writer of comedies for the theater in Denmark. She wrote in the new, bourgeois, French-Italian-inspired style, which in the theater was manifested in a genre lying between tragedy and comedy, in Scandinavia called "the sensitive...