Camille Selden was the nom de plume of Elise Krinitz (1825–96), a German-born novelist, biographer, translator and literary critic who spent most of her life in France. She is best remembered for her role as companion and muse to Heinrich Heine during the last eight months of his life, an experience she recounted in The Last Days of Heinrich Heine (1884).Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) is one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century German poetry. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by the German authorities, and he lived as an exile in France for most of his adult life. His early poetry was famously set to music by composers such as Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn, among others.

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Camille Selden was the nom de plume of Elise Krinitz (1825–96), a German-born novelist, biographer, translator and literary critic who spent most of her life in France. She is best remembered for her role as companion and muse to Heinrich Heine during the last eight months of his life, an experience she recounted in The Last Days of Heinrich Heine (1884).Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) is one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century German poetry. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by the German authorities, and he lived as an exile in France for most of his adult life. His early poetry was famously set to music by composers such as Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn, among others.

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Camille Selden was the nom de plume of Elise Krinitz (1825–96), a German-born novelist, biographer, translator and literary critic who spent most of her life in France. She is best remembered for her role as companion and muse to Heinrich Heine during the last eight months of his life, an experience she recounted in The Last Days of Heinrich Heine (1884).Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) is one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century German poetry. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by the German authorities, and he lived as an exile in France for most of his adult life. His early poetry was famously set to music by composers such as Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn, among others.

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