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LEWALD, FANNY (1811–1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEWALD, FANNY (1811–1889) , See also:German author, was See also:born at See also:Konigsberg in See also:East See also:Prussia on the 24th of See also:March 1811, of Jewish parentage. When seventeen years of See also:age she embraced See also:Christianity, and after travelling in See also:Germany, See also:France and See also:Italy, settled in 1845 at See also:Berlin. Here, in 1854, she married the author, Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr (1805–1876), and removed after his See also:death in 1876 to See also:Dresden, where she resided, engaged in See also:literary See also:work, until her death on the 5th of See also:August 1889. Fanny Lewald is less remarkable for her writings, which are mostly sober, See also:matter-of-fact See also:works, though displaying considerable See also:talent and culture, than for her championship of " See also:women's rights," a question which she was practically the first German woman to take up, and for her scathing See also:satire on the sentimentalism of the Grafin See also:Hahn Hahn. This authoress she ruthlessly attacked in the exquisite See also:parody (Diegena, See also:Roman von Iduna Grafin H . . . . H. . . . (2nd ed., 1847). Among the best known of her novels are Klementine (1842); Prinz See also:Louis See also:Ferdinand (1849; 2nd ed., 1859); Das Madchen von Hela (186o).; Von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht (8 vols., 1863–1865); Benvenuto (1875), and Stella (1883; See also:English by B. See also:Marshall, 1884). Of her writings in See also:defence of the emancipation of women Osterbriefe See also:fur See also:die Frauen (1863) and Fur and wider die Frauen (187o) are conspicuous.

Her autobiography, Meine Lebensgeschichte (6 vols., 1861–1862), is brightly written and affords interesting glimpses of the literary See also:

life of her See also:time. A selection of her works was published under the See also:title Gesammelte Schriften in 12 vols. (1870–1874). Cf. K. Frenzel, Erinnerungen and Stromungen (189o).

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