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.
