The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)

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Summary: A fascinating window into the life of a German pre-feminist
Review: Fanny Lewald is an engaging and provocative author whose autobiography is much more than just the story of her life. The broad scope of this book (politics, art, religion, philosophy)comes from Lewald's varied interests and own deep involvement in her tumultuous times. Germany and Europe as whole were going through lots of changes--revolutions in many fields--and Lewald participated in many of them and was a perceptive and thoughtful observer of all of them.

The book is beautifully and sensitively translated, making it a pleasure to read.