SIR GALAHAD Pseud. Berta ECKSTEIN-DIENER (Helen Diner)

Title Idioten Führer: durch die russische Literatur.
Publisher Munich München Albert Langen
Date 1925
Book ID 37906
First Edition  

Description

1. bis 20. Tausend. 8vo., original printed paper-covered boards, 164 pp.. 2 leaflets advertising author’s other works loosely enclosed. Backstrip a little pulled at spine ends, edges rubbed, boards a little age-darkened. Else very clean and tight. Austrian writer and feminist historian (1874-1948). Her book “Mütter und Amazonen”[Mothers and Amazons] was one of the first works to focus on history from a woman’s standpoint and examined the concept of matriarchy. She was a member of the “Arthurians,” a group of European intellectuals who each adopted a name from the Round Table (hers was Sir Galahad). In America she wrote under the name of Helen Diner.
Price: £50.00