Mathilde Blind
Mathilde Blind (born
Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 – 26 November 1896), was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of artists and writers. By the late 1880s she had become prominent among
New Woman writers such as
Vernon Lee (Violet Paget),
Amy Levy,
Mona Caird,
Olive Schreiner,
Rosamund Marriott Watson, and
Katharine Tynan. She was praised by
Algernon Charles Swinburne,
William Michael Rossetti,
Amy Levy,
Edith Nesbit,
Arthur Symons and
Arnold Bennett. Her much-discussed poem ''The Ascent of Man'' presents a distinctly feminist response to the Darwinian
theory of evolution.
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