The Author: Margaret E. Ward is Professor of German at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she held the William R. Kenan, Jr. professorship from 1995 to 1997. She received her Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literatures at Indiana University (Bloomington) and has been the recipient of NEH and Fulbright research fellowships. The author of Rolf Hochhuth (1977), she has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, post-1945 political theater, and women’s biography.

«In this, the first major publication in English on Fanny Lewald, Margaret Ward provides a keenly thoughtful and wonderfully written examination of the life and work of a nineteenth-century German woman writer and social critic. Her study is firmly contextualized within its specific cultural and historical location, but it is also convincingly anchored in present-day feminist and cultural-studies thinking. In this very successful negotiation between past and present, Professor Ward has given us a book that can appeal to a broad audience.» (Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres, Professor of German and Women’s Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Minnesota)