Notes Preface 1. Much has been written about this phenomenon, but the titles of Luise F. Pusch’s (editor) books perhaps most clearly illustrate it: Mütter berühmter Männer. Zwölf biographische Portraits (Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1994). Among women included in this text are Katharina Kepler, Dorothea Händel, Maria Anna Mozart, Johanna Schopenhauer, Betty Heine, and Franziska Nietzsche. Töchter berühmter Männer. Neun biographische Portraits (Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1988). Daughters in this work include the daughters of Achim von Arnim (Gisela), Karl Marx (Eleanor),Theodor Fontane (Mete), and the daughters of Johann Sebastian Bach. Schwestern berühmter Männer. Zwölf biographische Portraits (Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1985). Among the sisters included here are Cornelia Goethe, Maria Anna Mozart, Ulrike von Kleist, Luise Büchner , Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Carla Mann. 2. Werde, die du bist was published with another of her novellas: Wie Frauen werden. Werde, die Du bist. Novellen (Breslau: Schottlaender, 1894). Werde was reprinted in 1977 (Frankfurt: Arndtstraße). Another reprint edited by Berta Rahm was published in 1988 (Neunkirch:Ala). 3. “Die alte Frau,” Die Zukunft, no. 12 (1903): 22–30. Edited by Maximilian Harden. Berlin. Reprinted in Zur Psychologie der Frau, edited and introduction by Gisela Brinker-Gabler, 210–20 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer TaschenbuchVerlag, 1978). 101 Become Who You are 1. Sappho was the poet-priestess of Lesbos, the “isle of women.” The Fliegende Blätter was a humorous journal of caricatures, poems, and stories published in Munich from 1844–1944. 2. Psyche is Greek for “female soul.” Classical mythology wedded Psyche to the love-god Eros.Their marriage was a union of the soul with the body. 3. Mignon is a young girl (12–13 years old) who is first encountered in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. She accompanies Wilhelm after he buys her freedom, later becoming very ill from homesickness for her native country, Italy. 4. Mämmchen: the diminutive form “chen” can be understood as belittling or pejorative; however, it also denotes a form of endearment. 5. Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901) was born in Basel, Switzerland; he was trained in Düsseldorf. He is referred to as a “German Roman” because of the many years he spent in Italy. 6. Charlotte Corday (1768–1793) was a moderate Girondin in the French Revolution; she murdered the more radical Jean Paul Marat. Immediately apprehended, she was sentenced to death and executed on July 17, 1793. 7. Raphael (1483–1520) was master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. 8. Tiberius (born 42 B.C., died A.D. 37) was Roman emperor from A.D. 14–37. He went to live on Capri in A.D. 26 and ruled in absentia. 9. The greatest living philosopher refers to Friedrich Nietzsche and his theory of the “Übermensch.” 10. Jean Paul (1763–1825) was a German author. Real name: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter. “The Old Woman” 1. Moltke (1800–1891) was a Prussian General Field Marshall. 102 Notes [44.222.118.194] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 08:35 GMT) Afterword 1. For biographical information on Dohm, see biographies by Adele Schreiber, Hedwig Dohm als Vorkämpferin und Vordenkerin neuer Frauenideale (Berlin: MärkischeVerlagsanstaalt, 1914); Julia Meißner, Mehr Stolz Ihr Frauen! Hedwig Dohm—eine Biographie (Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1987); and Heike Brandt, “Die Menschenrechte haben kein Geschlecht.” Lebensgeschichte der Hedwig Dohm (Weinheim: Belz and Gelberg, 1989). 2. Meißner, Mehr Stolz, 17. 3. See her essay, reprinted in: Erinnerungen an Hedwig Dohm, edited by Berta Rahm (Zürich:Ala, 1980), 45–78. 4. “Zehn von ihren achtzehn Kindern nährte die Mutter selbst. Ich war das erste ihrer Ammenkinder. Darum mochte sie mich nicht. Ich weiss es von ihr selbst“ [Mother breast-fed ten of her eighteen children herself. I was the first of her wet-nurse children. That’s why she didn’t like me. I know this from her directly.] (“Kindheitserinnerungen ,” 65). 5. She discusses this in other works as well. For example, also see: Was die Pastoren denken [What the Pastors think] (Berlin: Reinhold Schlingmann, 1872). Reprinted and introduction by Berta Rahm (Zürich: Ala, 1977), 44–45. 6. See Meißner, Mehr Stolz, 40. 7. Elke Frederiksen writes:“Als Mutter von fünf Kindern spielte sie zunächst eine recht passive Rolle an diesen geselligen Abenden und litt besonders an ihrer mangelnden Ausbildung. Doch durch eifriges Zuhören und Lesen bildete sie sich selbst und fing schließlich sogar zu schreiben...