by Eveline Hasler · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423120876
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«Die Wachsflügelfrau» is the historical novel by Eveline Hasler, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (260 pages, in German).
The novel follows Emily Kempin-Spyri, the first female doctor of law in Europe, who cannot practise in Zurich because she is a woman. Emily, inspired by her aunt Johanna Spyri, author of Heidi, emigrates with her family to New York, where she promotes a law school for women that New York University later adopts.
Novel originally published in 1993; this edition, number 12087 of the dtv collection, appeared in 1998.
A work for those who enjoy fictionalised biographies and the history of female emancipation.
Eveline Hasler is a Swiss writer. She has written novels and children's books which have been translated into many languages. One of her most-read works is the novel Anna Goeldin – The Last Witch. It fictionalizes one of the last witchcraft trials in Europe and was published in 1982, at the bicentennial of the execution of Anna Göldi. Hasler was awarded a Schiller Foundation prize for her first novel Novemberinsel.
