Maruschka : Roman

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Lydia Danöfen (after 1906-?) is the pseudonym used by Lydia Mauser, the wife of a Munich doctor, for her fictional works. Nothing is known about her life. She published just three books: a novella and two novels. Her novella with numerous marginalia is in the poet Paul Heyse's estate (1830-1914). Albert Langen's 1912 brochure praises Danöfen's "scarcity of form, elegance of style, wit, lack of sentimentality, mental agility, seriousness without heaviness, depth and gloom". The Munich authors Georg Queri (1879-1919) and Ludwig Thoma (1867-1921) include Danöfen in their "Bayernbuch. 100 bayrische Autoren eines Jahrtausends" (1913) as one of five female authors – along with Emma Haushofer-Merk (1854-1925), Anna Croissant-Rust (1860-1943), Dora Stieler (1875-1957), Lena Christ (1881-1920) and Clara Hätzlerin (c. 1430-after 1476). The novel "Maruschka" by Lydia Danöfen (after 1906-?) appeared in 1912. "Maruschka, the girl from Russia, matures to full womanhood in Munich and inspires a young merchant son with her beauty who wants to marry her, her brother who loves his half-sister madly, and her parents who have big business plans with the girl. Lydia Danöfen succeeds superbly with the peculiar mixture of characters, and particularly their real embodiment." (Albert Langen Verlag) Datum: 2019