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The life of High Countess Gritta von Ratsinourhouse =

(Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns)

by Bettina von Arnim · 1999

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A group of girls escape from their convent school and after surviving a shipwreck found a feminist paradise on an exotic island. Written in the 1840s by a mother-daughter team, the novel was a critique of German paternalism.

Fiction, generalConventsFictionRunawaysIslandsCommunal livingFeminismHistoryFairy tales