Abstract
Eighteenth‐century Germany was strongly oriented towards Britain as a model of political, economic and cultural progress. The admiration for all things British was a Continental phenomenon, and Anglophilia extended to a number of aspects of everyday life.Britsh literature had a significant impact on German literature. The first German woman novelist, Sophie von La Roche, was influenced by British works in much of her writing. Her first novel, Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771), exhibits this Anglophilia in that it is directly modelled on Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747–8) and that the theme of Englishness constitutes one of the driving forces of the plot. This paper argues that La Roche subtly uses authentic and entertaining expressions of Anglophilia in order to pursue a didactic interest, moral instruction.
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