That affair is what caused her husband, the Prussian politician Innstetten, to immediately divorce her.
While on a trip to the beach, this fictional character sees a seal that she mistakes for a mermaid, and during a later excursion she witnesses seven sailors pulled from a wrecked ship. The first time this character enters her husband's home, she notices a stuffed crocodile and shark hanging in the hall. The work in which she appears opens by describing her idyllic childhood with  Herta, Berta, and Hulda.  This character fears that her home is haunted by a ghost she calls the Chinaman, and discusses this situation with a hunchbacked chemist named Gieshubler.  She has an awkward meeting with her daughter Annie, years after her carelessly hidden letters reveal a relationship with a dashing Major. That affair is what caused her husband, the Prussian politician Innstetten, to immediately divorce her. For 10 points, name this tragic lover of Crampas, the title character of a novel by Theodor Fontane.
While on a trip to the beach, this fictional character sees a seal that she mistakes for a mermaid, and during a later excursion she witnesses seven sailors pulled from a wrecked ship.
Effi Briest