Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884)

One of the forgotten nineteenth-century women writers, Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884) was a political activist, writer, and educator who experienced exciting historical times in both Germany and the United States (Wisconsin). Writing on the eve of the German Revolution of 1848, she founded a short-lived revolutionary newspaper and even rode into battle. Later, in exile in the United States, she used her journalistic and oratory skills in support of the women's suffrage and anti-slavery movements. This book is an excellent supplemental reading for women's studies and history classes as well as German literature in translation.

The Author: Susan L. Piepke is Professor of Foreign Languages and Department Chair at Bridgewater College, Virginia. She received her Doctorate of Modern Languages (DML) from Middlebury College in Vermont. In addition to essays on various German and Spanish writers, including Grillparzer, Raabe, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, she is the author (introduction) and translator of Women and Their Vocation: A Nineteenth-Century View by Luise Büchner (Peter Lang, 1999).