WILHELMINE HEIMBURG
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pseudonym of Bertha Behrens. A German storywriter; born at Thale, Sept. 7, 1850. Her principal works are: "From the Life of my Old Friend" (1879); "Lumpenmuller's Lisbeth" (1879); "The Wendhusen Cloister" (1880); "Her Only Brother" (2d ed. 1883); "Crises of the Heart" (1888); "Under the Linden" (1888), short stories; "Forest Flowers" (5th ed. 1891), a collection of short stories; "An Insignificant Woman" (1891); "Miss Useless" (1893).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.