Gabriele Reuter - Das Tränenhaus (The House of Tears)

Gabriele Reuter (1859-1941) fought for free motherhood in this novel Das Tränenhaus: A Württemberg midwife gives asylum to seduced and abused girls and women in her pitiful house and helps them give birth to their children, which she passes on to foster mothers. At that time, the theme of unmarried pregnant women was socially banned and caused a scandal when the book was published. At the same time, Reuter literally summarised the birth of her own daughter, who was born at the unmarried mothers' home in Erbach an der Donau in 1897.

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