Her literary models included female writers such as Rahel Varnhagen and George Sand, as well as Edward Bulwer Lytton and Theodor Mundt.
Its most notable members were Rosa Maria Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Viscount of Porto Seguro, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and (by marriage to Karl) Rahel Varnhagen.