Clementine

Lewald, Fanny, 1811-1889Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 220K words
Chapters: 23

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Clementine by Fanny LewaldAuthor: Lewald, Fanny, 1811-1889,Language: German, Class: PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures, Release Date: Jun 14, 2014

Editor's review

As a work by the nineteenth-century German woman writer Fanny Lewald, Clementine occupies a place in Project Gutenberg's free public-domain collection, and its value lies first in the accessibility of the text and the completeness of the original. Lewald lived through a period of German social transformation, and her writing often concerns women's circumstances and individual fate; this novel provides a primary text for studying nineteenth-century German literature and women's writing. The electronic edition preserves the original language and layout, making it suitable as a base text for edition comparison or close reading. In terms of reading setting, it suits a quiet desk rather than fragmented commute time, because the German original and period vocabulary require concentration. Note that this is not a popular work for a general audience: it lacks an introduction and annotations, and readers must bring their own background knowledge. Overall, its significance lies in open access and scholarly reserve rather than light entertainment.

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Scholars and students of nineteenth-century German literature and women's writing
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Readers with strong German who want to engage with classic long-form fiction
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Look up Lewald's biography and the social context of nineteenth-century Germany before starting the text.
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Read alongside works by contemporary German women writers to observe thematic and narrative differences.
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It can serve as advanced extensive reading material, but nineteenth-century literary German differs from contemporary German, with longer sentences and much period vocabulary, so it is not recommended as a beginner's first German text.

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About the author

Lewald, Fanny, 1811-1889 Author · German · 1811–1889

Fanny Lewald (1811–1889) was a German woman writer and one of the pioneers of the early women's movement. Her works span novels, travel writing, and autobiography, with Clementine among her representative works. Her writing often observes women's circumstances, marriage, and social norms, giving her a place in nineteenth-century German women's literature and the movement for women's emancipation. Through narrative and travel writing she recorded the experiences of her time and expressed concern for women's education and independent life, while her autobiographical texts offer later readers material for understanding the lives of women intellectuals of that era. Publicly available information is currently limited, and only one of her works is held in this collection, so a full account of her life and literary output remains incomplete; her novels, travel writing, and autobiography may be consulted to trace her style and intellectual development.