Daughters: the Story of Two Generations 1st Edition in Dust Jacket 1930 by Gabriele Reuter - Berlin - Women

Title: Daughters: the Story of Two Generations

Author: Gabriele Reuter

Description: First edition of the English translation. First printing (October 1930). Brown, textured boards stamped in black. Very light rubbing to board edges. Evidence of erasure of previous owner's info on ffep, else pages clean. Dust jacket shows very slight edgewear to head and foot of spine and corners; minor surface wear on spine; front flap clipped but still showing the publisher's price of $2.00. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 329 pp. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Translated from the German by Roberts Tapley.

Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941) was a German writer with a feminist and Bohemian orientation. She was friends with John Henry Mackay, Henrik Ibsen, and Rudolf Steiner. She often wrote about the lives of ordinary German women and their troubled experience under contemporary social constraints.

Set in Berlin, Reuter's novel Daughters presents the predicament of a woman in the difficult period of the First World War and after the War, to guide, counsel, console, and sustain two daughters and an orphaned niece. Her own marriage has been unhappy. Her only resources are an active intelligence and a somewhat exceptional culture. But the War has produced in Berlin new refinements of suffering: the pressure of want, the destruction of moral codes, a new aimlessness and a new cynicism.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Macmillan Company
Place: New York
Year: 1930

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: fiction, novel, Germany, Berlin, women's lives,