Mathilde Blind
German-born English writer 1841–1896 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mathilde Blind (born Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 – 26 November 1896),[1] 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.[2]
Mathilde Blind | |
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Born | Mathilde Cohen (1841-03-21)21 March 1841 |
Died | 26 November 1896(1896-11-26) (aged 55) London, UK |
Resting place | St Pancras Cemetery, East Finchley, London |
Occupation(s) | poet, woman of letters |