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FormatBook Whole
Author, MonographicFern, Edna, 1861-1941
Title, MonographicGesammelte Schriften von Edna Fern
Place of PublicationLeipzig
PublisherTh. Schroeter's Verlag
Date of Publication1901
Series TitleVols. 2, 3, and 4 only
NotesGerman-American author; author's real name is Fernande Anna Theresa Franziska Richter. --- MKI has 2nd, 3rd, and 4th volumes. --- [From Ward, Bio-Bibliography, 1985: Richter, Fernande Anna Therese Franziska Auguste (Edna Fern), nee Osthaus, b. 2-21-1861 in Roessing near Nordstemmen/Hannover, d. 1-20-1941 in St. Louis. Early education by private tutors, then spent 2 years in the cloister, Sacre Coeur near Aachen where she learned French. Lived with parents in Hildesheim and Osnabrueck where she gave music lessons. Came with bankrupt parents to America in 1881 where she first lived on a farm in southwest Missouri, then in St. Louis. Married in 1882, but divorced in 1887. Married Dr. Georg Richter in 1894. 1893-95 with St. Louis welfare board. Traveled in 1896 to various American cities, lecturing on literature and social questions, especially women's emancipation. Sec'y. of the St. L. Schilller-Verein (1900). Acclaimed as one of German-America's finest writers at an Edna Fern evening celebration held at the Northside Turnhalle in Chicago in 1908. A poem in her honor is attributed to Martin Drescher. Part of the ms. to her novel, Dietrich in Amerika, was printed in M. Singer's Der Zeitgeist before it was suppressed during WWI. Edna Fern was part of the school that formed around Robert Reitzel. Poetess, dramatist, novelist, social activist.] See also, Kluge, Cora Lee: Other Witnesses, 2007.
Call NumberPIA* [at end of subject collection]
MKI TermsFiction/ Women authors