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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 18, 2019). |
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Translator's Introductory Note; Acknowledgements; 1. The End and the Beginning: The Book of My Life by Hermynia Zur Mühlen; 2. Supplement to The End and the Beginning* by Hermynia Zur Mühlen; 3. Notes on Persons and Events Mentioned in the Memoir by Lionel Gossman; 4. Feuilletons and Fairy Tales: A Sampling; The Red Redeemer; Confession; High Treason; Death of a Shade; A Secondary Happiness; The Señora; Miss Brington; We Have to Tell Them; Painted on Ivory; The Sparrow; The Spectacles; 5. Our Daughters the Nazi Girls. A Synopsis in English. |
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6. Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: A Tribute7. Works by Hermynia Zur Mühlen in English Translation; 8. Image Portfolio; List of Illustrations. |
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"Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. Zur Mühlen translated over 70 books from English, French and Russian into German, notably the novels of Upton Sinclair, which she turned into best-sellers in Germany; produced a series of detective novels under a pseudonym; wrote seven engaging and thought-provoking novels of her own, six of which were translated into English; contributed countless insightful short stories and articles to newspapers and magazines; and, having become a committed socialist, achieved international renown in the 1920s with her Fairy Tales for Workers' Children, which were widely translated including into Chinese and Japanese. Because of her fervent and outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she and her life-long Jewish partner, Stefan Klein, had to flee first Germany, where they had settled, and then, in 1938, her native Austria. They found refuge in England, where Zur Mühlen died, forgotten and virtually penniless, in 1951."--Publisher's website. |
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Zur Mühlen, Hermynia, 1883-1951.
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Zur Mühlen, Hermynia, 1883-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Zur Mühlen, Hermynia, 1883-1951 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmhKqCFvfvY7Hk9Gb3RKd
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German fiction -- 20th century.
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Roman allemand -- 20e siècle.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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German fiction
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1900-1999
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Gossman, Lionel.
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Print version: Zur Mühlen, Hermynia. Red Countess : Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951). Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, ©2018 9781783745555 |
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1783745568 |
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9781783745562 (electronic bk.) |
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1783745541 |
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9781783745548 |
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AU@ 000066306287 |
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AU@ 000069528735 |
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