The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kaiser, Isabelle

Kaiser, Isabelle, Swiss writer: b. Beckenried (on Lake Lucerne), 1866. With a command of French and German, she has written in both languages, though most of her writing has been done in French so successfully that she received the prize of the French Academy. Among her published French works are &lsquo;Icibas&rsquo; (1888); &lsquo;Sous les étoiles&rsquo; (1890); &lsquo;Des ailes&rsquo; (1897); &lsquo;Le jardin clos&rsquo; (1912), all poems; &lsquo;Cœur de femme&rsquo; (1891); &lsquo;Sorcière&rsquo; (1895); &lsquo;Héro&rsquo; (1898); &lsquo;Notre père qui êtes aux cieux&rsquo; (1899); &lsquo;Vive le roi!&rsquo; (1903); &lsquo;L'Eclair dans la voile&rsquo; (1907); &lsquo;Marcienne de Fluë&rsquo; (1909), novels and stories. Her works, written in German, include &lsquo;Wenn die Sonne untergeht&rsquo; (1901), a novel; &lsquo;Mein

Herz&rsquo; (1908), poems; &lsquo;Die Friedensucherin&rsquo; (1908), a romance; &lsquo;Der wandernde See&rsquo; (1910), and &lsquo;Von ewiger Liebe&rsquo; (1913).