Author: COURTHS-MAHLER, H. [CHRISTINE ERNESTINE ELISABETH MALLER, 1867-1950],
Title: Gij zijt mijn uitgerkorene. [First dutch language edition translated from the original german by A. Vuerhard-Berkhout].
Description: Zeist, `, J.T. Swartsenbuerg, [circa], 1925. Dmall 8°., original publ. cloth, covertitle in black type in relief printed within a decorative border, title on spine. Hftitle (verso blank). 249pp. Detailed publ. list on [4]pp. at rear which includes a list of works by Courths-Mahler. NOT called-for in Royal Dutch Library, KB. Dutch language novel with strong melodramatic tendency, which however mirrors german society life and her contacts with lower social classes. Nice copy in original decorative publ. cloth. (french title a bit stained some minimap marginal very occasional spotting). Hedwig Courths-Maler was born out of wedlock in 1867 in the part of Germany known today as The Free State of Thuringia and christened Ernestine Frederike Elisabeth Mahler. Hedwig - as she called herself as achild - was raised by various foster parents. She first went to work in Leipzig as a sales assistant and wrote her first novel at the age of seventeen. Hedwig Courths-Mahler wrote primarily love stories which made her the best-sellingselling author of her age between 1905 and 1939. In 1939 the Nazis refused to deliver paper to her publisher. Finalle, the suffering of her daughter Friede Birkner, who was arrested by the Gestapo, silenced for ever the voice of this popular writer.

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