The Emergence of the Modern German Novel : Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, and Maria Anna Sagar (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)

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Summary: Lily Braun
Review: Lily Braun is today one of the most know German suffragets. Her Fraunefrage (Woman question) is an monumental work and her another works brought her in her time great popularity. An army general daughter who abandoned her family and bakame a member of a socialist party, a suffragette, pro-choice activist, pacifist, was disowned by family, lived luxury but all her life paid her fathers debts. This book comes with critical analysis of her works and show how their ideas were changing during Brauns life under different social pressure. From and radical feminist, suffragette and later socialist after her exlusion from party to devoted mother and later pro war activist.The author also shows that we cannot take everything Braun wrote as a face value beacause in her works is mixed reality and fiction (Dichtung und Warheit) What is missing, but a few pages at the biginning of the book, is a context in which she was living her life.