Background
Frothingham, Ellen was born on March 25, 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Review Doctor N. L. and Anne Gorham (Brooks) F. Translated Lessing’s Nathan der Weise, 1867.
Frothingham, Ellen was born on March 25, 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Review Doctor N. L. and Anne Gorham (Brooks) F. Translated Lessing’s Nathan der Weise, 1867.
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"s Laokoon (1874) and Franz Grillparzer"s Sappho (1876).