Transcriber’s Note:
Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
We Women and our Authors
WE WOMEN AND OUR
AUTHORS 
BY LAURA
MARHOLM HANSSON AN
ENGLISH RENDERING FROM
THE SECOND EDITION OF
THE GERMAN WORK, BY
HERMIONE RAMSDEN
JOHN LANE THE BODLEY
HEAD LONDON AND
NEW YORK 1899
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| We Women and our Authors | 1 |
| Gottfried Keller and Women | 23 |
| Paul Heyse and the Incommensurable | 61 |
| The Author in a Cul-de-sac (Ibsen) | 80 |
| The High Priest of Purity (Björnson) | 100 |
| The Women-haters, Tolstoy and Strindberg | |
| I. Tolstoy | 132 |
| II. Strindberg | 146 |
| Maupassant and the “Fin de Siècle” Woman | 179 |
| Barbey D’Aurevilly on the Mystery of Woman | 197 |
| How do we Stand? | 212 |
We Women and our Authors
We German women are accustomed to look upon ourselves as an appendageto or a part of man. Up till now it has been the chief object and thepride of our existence to subordinate ourselves to him, and to lookafter his comforts. It is so no longer, or at any rate it is not ascommon as it used to be. Women have begun to ask: Who am I? and not:Whose am I? which proves that they are conscious of their individualityand wish to live their own lives. At present