The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)

• The editor’s detailed notes on the persons and events mentioned in the autobiography
• A selection of Zur Mühlen’s short stories and two fairy tales
• A synopsis of Zur Mühlen’s untranslated novel Our Daughters the Nazi Girls
• An essay by the Editor on Zur Mühlen’s life and work
• A bibliography of Zur Mühlen’s novels in English translation
• A portfolio of selected illustrations of her work by George Grosz and Heinrich Vogeler
• A free online supplement with additional original material
The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
Lionel Gossman | August 2018
ISBN Hardback: 9781783745555
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783745562
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783745579
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783745586
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0140
Subject codes: BIC: BGH (Biography: historical, political & military), FSJ1 (Gender Studies: women), HBJD (European history); BISAC: BIO022000 (BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women), LIT003000 (LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist)
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Translator’s Introductory Note
Acknowledgments
1. The End and the Beginning: The Book of My Life
2. Supplement to The End and the Beginning
3. Notes on Persons and Events Mentioned in the Memoir
4. Feuilletons and Fairy Tales: A Sampling
Editor’s Note
The Red Redeemer
Confession
High Treason
Death of a Shade
A Secondary Happiness
The Señora
Miss Brington
We Have to Tell Them
Painted on Ivory
The Sparrow
The Spectacles
5. Our Daughters the Nazi Girls. A Synopsis in English
6. Remembering Hermynia Zur Mühlen: A Tribute
7. Works by Hermynia Zur Mühlen in English Translation
8. Image Portfolio
List of Illustrations

Appendix I: A Recollection of Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Stefan Klein by Sándor Márai
Appendix II: Ideas of Class and Proletarian Consciousness in the Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen by Patrik von zur Mühlen. Translated by L. Gossman
Appendix III: Zur Mühlen as Translator of Upton Sinclair by Lionel Gossman
Appendix IV: "Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children.” Zur Mühlen and the Socialist Fairy Tale, by Lionel Gossman