MARLITT, E., the pseudonym of Eugenie John (1825-87). A popular German novelist, born December 5, 1825, at Arnstadt, where she died, June 22, 1887. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, who sent her to Vienna to study music. She became deaf, lived for eleven years at Court, and then, withdrawing to Arnstadt, began there her novelistic career. Die zwölf Apostel (1805); Goldelse (1868); Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell (1868); Thüringer Erzählungen (1869); Reichsgräfin Gisela (1870); Heideprinzesschen (1872); Die zweite Frau (1874); and other novels are familiar in English translations.