Author. Sophie Tieck, a German author, received recognition mainly posthumously for her Romantic period writings. Literary scholars learned years after her death, that her first husband, August Ferdinand Bernhardi, and her brother, Ludwig Tieck, often took credit for her writings. When her son, William, published a three-volume collection of his parents' stories in 1847, he clearly gave credit to who wrote what. Her descendants published her personal letters in the 1960s, which documented her contributions to her husband's and brother's published writings. Her brother submitted sixteen stories to Christopher Nicolai's “Ostich Feathers,” which he claimed he authored, yet she actually wrote eight or nine of them. She and her niece, Dorothea Tieck, translated English Shakespearean plays to German, yet her brother Ludwig took credit for this work. Today, their translations are considered some of the best ever done. Born the middle child of three to a rope maker, she was educated at home while her brothers, Ludwig and Friedrich received formal educations. While Ludwig became an author, Friedrick became a sculptor and an oil-on-canvas artist. In 1799, she married August Ferdinand Bernhardi, an author, translator, and instructor of her brother Ludwig. He also published her stories under his name, never given her credit for her work. Scholars and critics today believe she may have wrote a third of Bernhardi's published works. With her husband being controlling, their marriage was unhappy, which led to an affair. Taking her two children, she left her husband joining her brother in a trip to Rome. While in Rome, she met Baltic German Karl Gegor von Knorring from Estonia. The couple were happy together and toured Munich, Prague and Vienna before settling in Munich. She was divorced in 1807. In 1810, she married von Knorring with her converting to Catholicism in 1811. At this point, they moved to the seventeenth century von Knorring northern Estonia estate in Erwita, then to Heidelberg in 1820, and Tallinn in 1833 where she died. She wrote in 1795 a collection of short stories, “Straussfedern,” as well as plays, fairytales, and two novels. She was well-known for her “Flower and Whiteflower" in 1822, a rework of a medieval poem. Her novel, “Evremont,” was published posthumously in 1836. Not only is she a recognized female German author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, but her life documents the social limitations that a talented woman had overcome during her lifetime.