In the final years of her life, decades after "Agnes", Caroline von Wolzogen wrote her second and final novel, "Cordelia", which was published in 1840. Set during the Wars of Liberation, the novel centers around a woman torn between an obscure soldier she loves and an aristocrat she is pressured to marry by her family. The novel celebrates the soldier's national devotion even while Cordelia marries the aristocrat, albeit without consummating the marriage.