Woman Triumphant: The story of her struggles for freedom, education and political rights.: Dedicated to all noble-minded women by an appreciative member of the other sex.Cronau, Rudolf
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Woman Triumphant: The story of her struggles for freedom, education and political rights.: Dedicated to all noble-minded women by an appreciative member of the other sex.
Cronau, Rudolf
Women -- History
Among American women of German descent we find likewise a number of
gifted poets. The two anthologies “Deutsch in Amerika” (Chicago, 1892)
and “Vom Lande des Sternenbanners” (Ellenville, N. Y., 1905) contain
many contributions of =Dorothea Boettcher=, =Elizabeth Mesch=, =Edna
Fern=, =Amalie von Ende=, =Marianne Kuenhold=, =Maria Raible=, =Minna
Kleeberg=, =Bella Fiebing=, =Henni Hubel=, =Martha Toeplitz=, and
others, distinguished in form as well as rich in imagination and
powerful in expression. Several German-American women also became
favorably known by valuable works in prose, as for instance =Therese
Albertine Louise Jacob=, the wife of Professor Robinson, of New York.
Under the name of Talvj, she wrote historical works about Captain John
Smith and the colonization of New England, and a “Historical Review of
the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations, with a Sketch of
their Popular Poetry.” Of her many poems and translations Goethe spoke
with great admiration. Her novels are far superior to the average in
style and interest.
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In the Netherlands the novels of =Elizabeth Bekker= were extremely
popular at the end of the 18th Century. She ranks high among Dutch
authors. Her “Historie van William Levend,” the “Historie van Sara
Burgerhart,” “Abraham Blankaart” and “Cornelia Wildshut” are her
greatest works. The poems of =Agathe Dekken= are to this day esteemed
masterpieces of Dutch poetry. During the 19th Century =Mrs.
Bosboom-Toussaint’s= novels, and =Helen Swarth’s= poems “Passiebloemen”
have been widely read.
The most eminent woman writer of Denmark was =Thomasine Kristine
Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd=, who introduced into Danish literature
a novel vein of realism and domestic humor. Although she has had many
imitators, she is still without a rival. =Hadda Raonkilde= has exerted a
powerful influence upon Scandinavian literature.
The two most successful women-novelists of Norway are =Anna Magdalene
Thoresen= and =Jacobine Camilla Collet=, author of the excellent novel
“Amtmandens Döttre” (“The Governor’s Daughters”). In 1894 all Norway
celebrated her eightieth birthday as a national holiday.
The most eminent Swedish novelist of the 19th Century was =Frederika
Bremer=. Her “Sketches of Every Day Life” attracted immediate attention.
But this success was far surpassed by the novels “The H—— Family” and
“The Neighbors.” Both manifest the author’s purity, simplicity, and love
of domestic life. These books as well as almost all of the author’s
later works have been translated into English, German and French.
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