June 15. Death of her brother Ferdinand. Die Drostte suffers subsequent continuous serious sickness.
September 15. Referral to the homeopath Clemens Maria von Bönninghausen. Gradual return to health. Die Droste remained true to homeopathy for the rest of her life.

First drafts for Judenbuche.

September - June 1831. Third Rhine journey. Staying at Clemens von Droste-Hülshoff’s. Frequent visits to Moritz von Haxthausen's family. Meetings with the acquaintances from previous Rhine stays. Social relations with Adele and Johanna Schopenhauer.

after June 9. First meeting with Levin Schücking at Rüschhaus.

January/February. Provisional conclusion of work on Hospiz.

Working on verse epic Des Arztes Vermächtnis (Actual beginning unclear)

February/March. Beginning of friendship with the philosophy lecturer Christoph Bernhard Schlüter in Münster, in whose house she is subsequently often a guest .
Acquaintance with Wilhelm Junkmann.
August-September. Journey in the Netherlands. Stays at Zutphen, Apeldoorn (Palais Het Loo) and Arcen.
Summer. First plans for publication of verse epics.
October 18. Marriage of Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff to Joseph von Laßberg; they move to Schloß Eppishausen at Erlen in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.
Winter 18834/35. Start of work on verse epic Die Schlacht im Loener Bruch.

July/August. Journey to Eppishausen with intermediate stay in Bonn.
Excursions in the surrounding area. Revision of the Lochamer Liederbuch., compositions. The poems Schloß Berg, Am Weiher, Der Säntis, Der Graf von Thal, among others, emerge during the stay in Switzerland.

October 29. Return journey from Eppishausen, at first to Bonn. Staying with Pauline von Droste-Hülshoff. Social relations with acquaintances from previous Rhine sojourns.

Work on verse epic Die Schlacht im Loener Bruch. Revision and completion (by December) of the two other verse epics. Working on opera composition Die Wiedertäufer [The Anabaptists].
February 5. Return journey from Bonn to the Rüschhaus with intermediate stay in Cologne.
February/March. Concrete planning for the edition of poems of 1838 (together with Schlüter and Junkmann).
April/May. First visit to Bökendorf and Abbenburg for seventeen years.
December 11. Acquaintanceship with Elise Rüdiger.

February. Conclusion of Die Schlacht im Loener Bruch.
March – beginning of June. Die Klänge aus dem Orient originates.
April – September. Further stays at Abbenburg and Bökendorf.. Frequent visits to relatives. Reunion with Amalie Hassenpflug.
August 11. Publication of Gedichte von Annette Elisabeth von D…. H…. by the Münster Aschendorff Verlag.
Autumn. Der weiße Aar originates (certainly before November 12, 1840).
End 1838. The cycle Des alten Pfarrers Woche appears in the newspaper "Coelestina" (1839).
End 1838 / Start 1839. Formation of a literary circle around Elise Rüdiger, the so-called Hecken-Schriftsteller-Gesellschaft. Members include Levin Schücking, Lousie von Bornstedt, Wilhelm Junkmann et al. Die Droste, when she happens to be in Münster, takes part in the meetings on Sundays. The acquaintanceship with Schücking deepens, who regularly visits the Rüschhaus.
End 1838 / Start 1839. The Laßberg family moves to Meersburg on Lake Constance.

Resumption of work on Die Judenbuche.

July/September. Journey to Abbenburg and Bökendorf. Meeting there with Amalie Hassenpflug. Visits in Kassel, Wehrden and Erpenburg.
August. Resumption of work on Das Geistliche Jahr (second part).

Schücking’s regular visits to the Rüschhaus. Occasional visits of Elise Rüdiger.
January. Provisional conclusion of Das Geistliche Jahr. Ongoing further work on the texts in succeeding years, without the emergence of a final version.
March. Completion of Die Judenbuche.
September – November. Manuscript of the comedy Perdu! Oder Dichter, Verleger und Blaustrumpf.
In the course of the year abundant production of ballads. Among others, Der Geyerpfiff, Der Mutter Wiederkehr, Der Graue as well as Das Fräulein Rodenschild, Der Schloßelf, Vorgeschichte (Second sight) for "Das Malerische und romantische Westphalen" (first phase).

November – Mai 1841. Collaboration on "Das Malerische und romantische Westphalen" by Levin Schücking and Ferdinand Freiligrath. Die Droste supplies local descriptive prose and ballads.

Winter/Spring. Die Droste and Schücking resolve to work intensively on their literary projects. Exceedingly abundant production of lyrics by Die Droste, which, according to Schücking, results from a bet between them. Some sixty poems arise, among others, Die Vendetta, Die Vergeltung, Die Schwestern, Der Knabe im Moor, die Zeitbilder, die Haidebilder and also the poems Die Schenke am See, am Thurme, Im Moose, Mein Beruf, Meine Todten, Am Bodensee, Die Taxuswand, Das Spiegelbild, and ***"kein Wort, und wär' es scharf wie Stahles Kinge". Collaboration by die Droste on the first part of Schücking’s novel "Das Stiftsfräulein".

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