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Book Reviews: Hermynia Zur Mühlen: Eine Biographie..
The first book to look at the life and works of Hermynia Zur Mühlen examines her prose fiction against the backdrop of her life and the turbulent times.
The Red Countess
Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
2nd Edition
Hermynia Zur Mühlen(author)
Lionel Gossman(editor)
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.
She 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
