She wrote under the names Fanny Tarnow and F. Life Fanny Tarnow was the first child of the lawyer and secretary of state in Güstrow David Tarnow, later a Gutsbesitzer or landholder, and his wife, Amalie Justine Holstein. She grew up in wealthy circles, but was unable to walk after a fall when she was four.
After her father lost his property, the family moved to Neu-Buckow and Fanny became a governess, first at Rügen for four years then at Rohlstorff. From to she was a governess in Wismar and Rankendorf, then until she went to nurse her ill mother in Neu-Buckow.
This was followed by temporary stays in Berlin and at her sister's house in Lübeck. Fanny and the writer Amalie Schoppe also headed a girls' reformatory in Hamburg. Worried friends then selected some of her writings and published then on a subscription basis, raising 5, Taler for her. After that she mainly worked translating French and English works into German. From she lived in Dessau.
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