Therese Heyne Forster Huber reflected in her life and works many of the animosities of her time: German hatred of things French, particularly the Revolution; the politicization of German literature in the wake of Romanticism; reaction against "scribbling women"; and public conflict about marriage and civil divorce. As the unnamed editor of one of Germany's most influential cultural newspapers of the early nineteenth century, Johann Friedrich Cotta's Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände (Morning Daily for the Cultured Classes), she indirectly imposed new critical directions in German literature as Romanticism waned. She was long held in ill repute for attempting to divorce Georg Forster, supporter of the French Revolution, even though at the time of the couple's separation he was on a diplomatic mission to Paris representing the Rhenish German National Convention and advocating the incorporation of the Rhineland into France. Huber and Caroline Michaelis B...