Editing Johanna Schopenhauer (section)

== Work ==
[[Image:Jugendleben und Wanderbilder Titel.png|thumb|right|180px|Cover of Schopenhauer's ''Jugendleben und Wanderbilder'']]
Not long after her arrival in Weimar, Schopenhauer began to publish her writings, consisting of articles on paintings with special attention on [[Jan van Eyck]]'s work. These were later published in two volumes in 1822.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schopenhauer |first=Johanna |url=https://deutsches-textarchiv.de/book/show/schopenhauer_eyck01_1822 |title=Johann van Eyck und seine Nachfolger |date=1822 |publisher=Wilman |edition=1. Auflage |location=Frankfurt (Main)}}</ref> 

In 1810, she published her first book: a biography of her friend [[Karl Ludwig Fernow]], who had died two years before. She wrote the book with the generous intention to pay Fernow's heirs' debts with his editor. The work met with critical success,{{cn|date=November 2022}} which encouraged Johanna to pursue a career as an author, on which her livelihood and that of Adele would depend after the aforementioned financial crisis. 

First came the publication of her [[Travel literature|travelogue]]s. Prior to Heinrich Floris' death, the family made trips through [[Western Europe]], mostly in order to help Arthur, then a teenager, develop the skills of a merchant.{{cn|date=November 2022}} But the trips were also of great use to Johanna, serving as raw material for her travelogues, which were very successful at the time they were published, decades later.{{cn|date=November 2022}} In 1990, her travelogue to [[England]] and [[Scotland]] was translated into English by [[Chapman & Hall]] — Johanna's only book to be introduced to the Anglophone world since the turn to the 20th century. Then came her fiction work, which, for a little more than a decade, turned her into the most famous woman author in Germany. The following are her best known novels: ''Gabriele'' (1819), ''Die Tante'' (1823) and ''Sidonia'' (1827).