Anneliese's House

The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany''s leading pre-First World War writers.

Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salom-1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the woman question." In recent years, the author''s literary treatment of the challenges facing women in a patriarchal society has awakened renewed interest. Anneliese''s House is the first English translation of her last and most masterful work of fiction, the 1921 Das Haus: Familiengeschichte vom Ende vorigen Jahrhunderts