Hannah Margaret Mary Closs


Hannah Margaret Mary Closs was an art critic and novelist. She wrote three novels and a book on aesthetics.

Biography

Hannah Margaret Mary Closs was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of German scholar Robert Priebsch. She wrote a book on aesthetics, Her Art and Life, and a re-working of the Tristan story. Her three novels, republished as the Tarn Trilogy, treat Catharism.
She married August Closs, an Austrian-born professor of German Studies, in 1931. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, who was a professor of linguistics and English at Stanford University, from 1970 to 2003. She fell ill with toxaemia and died in Bristol General Hospital.

Novels