The Education of Fanny Lewald is the autobiography of the most popular and prolific German woman writer of her period (1811-1889). The author of more than fifty books of fiction, travel memoirs, and articles about current events, Lewald was a friend or acquaintance of many of the prominent intellectual, artistic, and political figures of nineteenth-century Europe. Her autobiography is clearly and engagingly written. We see her developing from the bright, oldest child of a middle-class Jewish family in East Prussia into a successful writer and financially independent woman. And we see her struggles with a patriarchal society along the way.

Annotation Saying that best-selling German author Lewald (1811-89) neglected the opportunity in her novels to promote positive changes in the discourse operative in women's lives, modern critics have focused instead on her autobiography, essays, and earlier novels. However, Van Ornam, a Berlin-based writer and translator, finds strategies of dissent in most of the many texts she produced over her 40-year career. The study is based on her Ph. D. dissertation for Washington University in St. Louis. It is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Presents biographical profiles of significant women from throughout the history of the world, each with birth and death dates when known, a time line, quotation, and references, arranged alphabetically from Laa-Lyud.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of forty-two German writers active between 1841 and 1900; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

For a woman, Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. Heidi Tewarson gives us a rich account of Varnhagen's intellectual community and her writings which led to her reputation as a leading intellectual of her era--a champion of literary figures and movements, of human rights, and of Enlightenment values. 17 illustrations.

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