Luise Buechner: A Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Feminist

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This first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise Buchner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of Buchner’s fictional writings reveals that she both entertained and educated her readers. Her pedagogical messages correspond to ideas she promoted in her work on the woman question . This in-depth study properly situates her in the changing cultural climate and socio-political developments that led to unification of the German states in 1871. Buchner tested and revised her thoughts on the woman question in the course of her practical work as a co-founder of local women’s associations and as a member of two competing national bourgeois women’s organizations. Her voice and temperament, as reflected in letters and articles not consulted by previous biographers, lead to surprising discoveries about a single woman whose life had more to offer than the narrowly prescribed roles assigned to middle-class women of her day.