Product Description: "George Eliot" from Mathilde Blind. German-born British poet (1841-1896).

Product Description: Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) (originally Mathilde Cohen), was a poet. She was born at Mannheim, Germany, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind. She published several books of poetry including: The Prophecy of Saint Oran and Other Poems (1881), The Heather on Fire: A Tale of Highland Clearances (1886), Songs and Sonnets (1893) and Birds of Passage: Songs of the Orient and Occident (1895)...read more

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An eighteenth century singer, painter, and writer shares her observations on society, fashion, manners, the church, and the government