Ellen Frothingham
Ellen Frothingham worked in the United States as a translator of German-language works into English.Biography
She was born in Boston, the daughter of Nathaniel Frothingham. She studied German literature, and was well known for her translations into English of Lessing's Nathan der Weise, Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea, Berthold Auerbach's Edelweiss, Lessing's Laokoon and Franz Grillparzer's Sappho.