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The end and the beginning : the book of my life / by Hermynia Zur Mühlen ; with notes and a tribute by Lionel Gossman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Open Book Publishers, 2010Description: 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781906924294
  • 1906924295
  • 1906924287
  • 9781906924287
Uniform titles:
  • Ende und anfang. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: End and the beginning.DDC classification:
  • 833/.912 23
LOC classification:
  • PT2653.U7
Online resources:
Contents:
The end and the beginning / Hermynia Zur Mühlen -- 1950 supplement to Ende und Anfang / Hermynia Zur Mühlen -- Notes on persons and events mentioned in the memoir -- Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: a tribute / Lionel Gossman -- Works by Hermynia Zur Mühlen in English translation.
Summary: "Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen rejected her upbringing to pursue a career as a professional writer. She documents her extraordinary life in this lively and personal memoir, first published in Germany in 1929. This revised and corrected translation -- with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman -- will appeal especially to readers interested in womens history, World War I, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Publisher's description.
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Originally translated from the German by Frank Barnes as The Runaway Countess: New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930.

Translation extensively corrected and revised for this new edition by Lionel Gossman.

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Includes bibliographical references.

The end and the beginning / Hermynia Zur Mühlen -- 1950 supplement to Ende und Anfang / Hermynia Zur Mühlen -- Notes on persons and events mentioned in the memoir -- Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: a tribute / Lionel Gossman -- Works by Hermynia Zur Mühlen in English translation.

"Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen rejected her upbringing to pursue a career as a professional writer. She documents her extraordinary life in this lively and personal memoir, first published in Germany in 1929. This revised and corrected translation -- with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman -- will appeal especially to readers interested in womens history, World War I, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Publisher's description.

Text in English; translated from the German.

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