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 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 li...
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Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 11 janvier 2019
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-2456-1
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2018
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-554-8
Nombre de pages : vi + 446
Hermynia Zur Mühlen
1. The End and the Beginning: The Book of My LifeHermynia Zur Mühlen
2. Supplement to The End and the BeginningLionel Gossman
3. Notes on Persons and Events Mentioned in the Memoir4. Feuilletons and Fairy Tales: A Sampling
Lionel Gossman
Editor’s NoteLionel Gossman
5. Our Daughters the Nazi Girls. A Synopsis in EnglishLionel Gossman
6. Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: A TributeBorn 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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