In her 1822 criticism, she identified herself by the bylines "Briefe eines Frauenzimmers". Frauenzimmer is a term for women, now considered a pejoritive, but Goethe played on this, remarking she may call herself that but one of what extraordinary character and talent "ein Frauenzimmer von besondern Eigenschaften und Talenten Goethe (1824) "Serbische Lieder", "Auswärtige Literatur und Volkspoesie," quoted in Voigt 1911 (thesis) page 7? (indirectly via Aufsätze zur Literatur) Cf. also Talvj referring to herself as "ungelehrtes Frauenzimmer" in Voigt 1913b, p. 45. Voigt, Irma Elizabeth (1911). Frau Talvj : an interpreter of German culture in America (MA thesis). University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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"When Therese was nine years old" according to Voigt 1913b, p. 29 and 1806 in Hale 1874; "As a ten-year-old" in Wallach 2003, p. 30 Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell (1874), Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, Harper, pp. 775–776 Wallach, Martha Kaarsberg (2003), Kosta, Barbara; Kraft, Helga (eds.), "Exile and Nation, Body and Gender in the Works of Talvj (1797–1870)", Writing Against Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context, Harper, p. 29, ISBN9042010266
