Mathilde Blind, Selected Fin-de-Siècle Poetry and Prose, ed. by James Diedrick (Cambridge: MHRA, 2021)
Mathilde Blind’s writings, lectures, and intellectual interests make her a decadent and New Woman figure of the fin de siècle. Born in Mannheim, she was exiled from Germany, France, and Belgium after her stepfather Karl Blind took part in the Baden Revolution; the family settled in London, where they received visits from Giuseppe Mazzini, Karl Marx, and others. She wrote poems that criticized bot