Charlotte Sophie Luise Wilhelmine Von Ahlefeld, a German novelist, born near Weimar, Dec. 6,1781, died at Teplitz, July 27,1849. She married Herr von Ahlefeld, of Schleswig-Hol-stein, in 1798, and was separated from him in 1807. Goethe expressed a high opinion of her precocious literary talent. She published a great number of sentimental novels, under the name of Elisa Selbig and under her own name (1797-1832), as well as a volume of poetry (Weimar, 1826), under the name of Natalie.