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Friedlaender, V. H.: Mirrors & Angles. [ Permalink ]
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London, Country Life Limited 1931, illustrated from pencil sketches by Margaret Dobson, A.R.E, 77 pp., silbergeprägt. OLn., 4°
[ Tags: Lyrik, illustrierte Bücher, Englische Literatur, Frauenbewegung ]
Often used abbreviations and their translations
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– Background –
Violet Helen Friedlaender, one of the more elusive and neglected feminist women writers, wrote under her initials as V H Friedlaender while her surname was sometimes anglicised as Friedlander. Violet was born from a Prussian family in Jerusalem in 1879, but studied at St Mary’s Hall, a private secondary girls' school in Brighton, England which closed in 2009. In 1908, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and became honorary secretary of the Forest Gate branch during the summer of 1909. The organization grew increasingly radical and in 1912, she took part in a window smashing campaign, and was sentenced to four months in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham. In March 1909 the weekly paper ‘Votes for Women’ published the words of a song Violet had written to the tune of ‘Marching through Georgia’: ‘Hurrah! Hurrah! We battle for the right, / Hurrah! Hurrah! For peace with honour fight, / Prisoners of war, we greet you! / Victory is in sight; / March with the Women’s Army’. She contributed daily mottos to calendars of the Women's Press – the publishing section of the WSPU. In 1923, her novel ‘Mainspring’ was published by Putnam. She published poems for many years, and a collection was brought out in 1931, called Mirrors and Angles (often miscalled Mirrors and Angels). Violet Helen Friedlaender died on 23 June 1950 in Buckhurst Hill, Epping Forest, Essex.
