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See also:BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896) , See also:English author, was See also:born at See also:Mannheim on the 21st of See also:March 1841. Her See also:father was a banker named See also:Cohen, but she took the name of Blind after her step-father, the See also:political writer, Karl Blind (1826—1907), one of the exiled leaders of the See also:Baden insurrection in 1848—1849, and an ardent supporter of the various 19th-See also:century movements for the freedom and See also:autonomy of struggling nationalities. The See also:family was compelled to take See also:refuge in See also:England, where Mathilde devoted herself to literature and to the higher See also:education of See also:women. She produced also three See also:long poems, " The Prophecy of St See also:Oran " (1881), " The Heather on See also:Fire". (1886), an indignant protest against the evictions in the See also:Highlands, and " The Ascent of See also:Man " (1888), which was to be the epic of the theory of See also:evolution. She wrote See also:biographies of See also:George See also:Eliot (1883) and Madame See also:Roland (1886), and translated D.F. See also:Strauss's The Old Faith and the New' (1873—1874) and the See also:Memoirs of See also:Marie See also:Bashkirtseff (1890). She died on the 26th of Nov-ember 1896, bequeathing her See also:property to Newnham See also:College, See also:Cambridge.
A See also:complete edition of her poems was edited by Mr See also:Arthur See also:Symons in 1900, with a See also:biographical introduction by Dr See also:Richard See also:Garnett.
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