Ed by James Lynn. Sophie van la Roche [1731-1807] was the most famous 18th c German woman writer. This is her best known novel - the first novel by a German woman to appear in print. Goethe attended her salon & wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther under her influence. Epistolary; influenced by Richardson. Introduction, chronology, select bibliography, notes. Edited by James Lynn. NYU Press. 1992. Paper. NEW. $14.00