Hannah Closs

Background

Hannah Margaret Mary Closs (née Priebsch) was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of German scholar Robert Priebsch (1866–1935).

Career

She wrote three novels and a book on aesthetics. She wrote a book on aesthetics, Her Art and Life (1936), and a re-working of the Tristan story (1940). They had one daughter, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, who was a professor of linguistics and English at Stanford University, from 1970 to 2003.

She fell ill with toxaemia and died in Bristol General Hospital.

Works

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  • The Silent Tarn (The Tarn Trilogy, Book 3)

    (WONDERFUL COPY)

  • High are the Mountains
  • High are the mountains (The Tarn trilogy)
  • High are the mountains (The Tarn trilogy) by Hannah Priebsch Closs (1978-01-01)