Tag Archive: 0feminism

One of the great things about being a bookseller is the fact you’re always learning.  I’d not heard of Louise Aston (1814–1871) until a few weeks ago, a feminist writer who has been called the German George Sand, but she’s fascinating.  She wore trousers.  She smoked.  She advocated free love.  ‘Certainly, Louise Aston seems to have differed in her […]

Princess Caroline Matilda (1751–1775), the youngest sister of George III, was married off to her cousin, Christian VII of Denmark, when she was only 15.  It was not a happy marriage.  Christian was a mentally unstable philanderer who claimed it was ‘unfashionable to love one’s wife’, and Caroline eventually drifted into an affair with the […]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a very rare German novel on the rights of women.  This is another rare German novel, published only the year before, in 1800, a translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s important proto-feminist novel, The Wrongs of Woman.  This German version is translated via a French edition, Maria, ou Le malheur […]