The Education of Fanny Lewald

Download or read book The Education of Fanny Lewald written by Fanny Lewald and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education of Fanny Lewald is the autobiography of the most popular and prolific German woman writer of her period (1811-1889). The author of more than fifty books of fiction, travel memoirs, and articles about current events, Lewald was a friend or acquaintance of many of the prominent intellectual, artistic, and political figures of nineteenth-century Europe. Her autobiography is clearly and engagingly written. We see her developing from the bright, oldest child of a middle-class Jewish family in East Prussia into a successful writer and financially independent woman. And we see her struggles with a patriarchal society along the way.