TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lionel Gossman
AU  - Hermynia Zur Mühlen
AB  - 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.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 40588
KW  - memoir
KW  - World War I
KW  - biography
KW  - autobiography
KW  - Austrian literature
KW  - Austro-Hungarian Empire
KW  - Nazism
KW  - German literature
KW  - feminism
KW  - Great War
KW  - European history
KW  - Germany
KW  - women's history
L1  - http://books.openedition.org/obp/5973
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57900
PB  - Open Book Publishers
SN  - 9791036524561
TI  - The Red Countess : Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)null
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