‘EGERTON, George’ ( pseud .); Adelbert von HAGEN ( translator ). Grundtöne. “Keynotes”. Autorisirte Uebersetzung aus dem Englischen … mit dem Portrait der Verfasserin.

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The New Woman Goes Global ‘EGERTON, George’ ( pseud .); Adelbert von HAGEN ( translator ). Grundtöne. “Keynotes”. Autorisirte Uebersetzung aus dem Englischen … mit dem Portrait der Verfasserin. Zurich, Erfurt, and Leipzig: Eduard Moos . 1896. 8vo. Publisher’s mauve and pale green boards illustrated by Beardsley, upper board lettered in gilt and black, spine lettered in gilt (gothic letter), yellow patterned endpapers, edges stained red; pp. 192, 48 (advertisements), photographic frontispiece of Egerton with tissue guard, title-page repeating design by Aubrey Beardsley (adapted from first edition of Keynotes), lithographic floral headpieces; corners and spine ends lightly rubbed; sporadic light foxing; a very good copy; 1918 ownership inscription of Elizabeth Laska to front free endpaper. Very rare third edition, published three months after the first, of the first translation of George Egerton’s Keynotes into German, with a title-page by Beardsley adapted from the first English edition seemingly not present in the first German edition. Born Mary Elizabeth Annie Dunne (1859–1945), Egerton’s Keynotes was instrumental in shaping the New Woman movement. Enormously popular, it went through six English editions within months of publication and enjoyed similar success in the present German, with three editions in as many months; it was highly esteemed by the Riga-born German biographer of women (often considered a pioneering New Woman herself) and literary critic Laura Marholm, who

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