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

• Main Author: Lionel Gossman (auth)
• Other Authors: Hermynia Zur Mühlen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers
• Subjects: Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects; memoir; World War I; biography; autobiography; Austrian literature; Austro-Hungarian Empire; Nazism; German literature; feminism; Great War; European history; Germany; women's history
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, as a young adult she br...