The Red Countess : select autobiographical and fictional writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
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, as a young adult she bro...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2019.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Online Zugang: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2019-09-06 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : VI-446 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Red Countess, Texte imprimé, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2018 |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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, as a young adult she broke 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 a 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Description d'après la consultation, 2019-09-06 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : VI-446 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliographie: | Bibliogr. |
| ISBN: | 9791036524561 |
| Zugangseinschränkungen: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition. |