Marie Nathusius, née Scheele (* March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg; † December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt) was a popular storyteller and song composer. Alongside E. Marlitt and Ottilie Wildermuth, she was the most widely read German entertainer and youth writer of her generation. Her bestsellers Tagebuch eines armen Fräuleins (1854), Langenstein und Boblingen (1855) and Elisabeth. Eine Geschichte, die nicht mit der Heirat schließt (1858) were reprinted well into the 1920s.
