Celebration of Women Writers

Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-2001

Unwin, Nora S. (Nora Spicer), 1907-1982

Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage

4th edition; London: George Bell and Sons, 190

Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873

Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty

Lloyd, Eleanor

The Book of Sun-Dials

Zur Mühlen, Hermynia, 1883-1951

  
 http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ presents:  
Came the Stranger by Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883‐1951) London: Frederick Muller, 1946.  No translator named.  No indication that the work was translated.  Reproduced with permission of Patrik von zur Mühlen.   German title:  
Als der Fremde kam.   Vienna: Globus Verlag, 1946.  [The German edition appeared after the book's publication in English.]  
Dr. Patrik von zur Muehlen 
Trierer Strasse 57 
D-53115 Bonn 
Germany 
 
 
 
Dear Mrs. Ockerbloom, 
 
Professor Gossman asked me to inform you about the copyright problems concerning the 
books of Hermynia Zur Muehlen. Indeed, these problems seem to be very murky, but I can 
help you to clear them up. 
The marriage of Hermynia and my great-uncle Viktor von zur Muehlen was dissolved in 
1920, so that neither the family as a whole nor any member of it is entitled to the copyright of 
her novels, fairy tales, essays etc. In 1938 she married her second husband Stefan Klein, a 
citizen of Czechoslovakia; he died nine years after her in 1960 – as we know – without a 
testament. They had no children, and neither had brothers or sisters who could claim the 
copyright.  
The Publishing House – the Malik Verlag – where most of her books were published 
belonged to the Communist Party; it does not exist today. 
Moreover, German copyright had a validity of 50 years (now 70 years) and Hermynia Zur 
Mühlen died in 1951; hence no other publisher, such as S. Bermann Fischer, or anybody else, 
can enter a protest against any form of reprinting, re-editing or republishing of her books; the 
books are available for everybody.    
With respect to her translated books there we have the same situation. As I know, all of her 
books were translated by herself anonymously or under a pseudonym (i.e. Lawrence H. 
Desberry), perhaps revised by a native speaker.  
In the last fifty years many of her books have been reprinted or republished without any 
problems. In many cases the publishers asked me or relatives of mine and always we gave the 
same answer. I would much appreciate seeing her works published, whether  printed or posted 
to the internet or in any other form.  
 
Sincerely yours  
 
Patrik von zur Mühlen 
 
 
 
 
 
 






















































































































































Came the Stranger

Guests in the House

Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World

Robinson, Mabel Louise, 1874-1962

Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz

McClung, Nellie L., 1873-1951

In Times Like These

Gannett, Ruth Stiles

Gannett, Ruth Chrisman

My Father's Dragon

Moon, Grace, 1877-1947

Moon, Carl, 1878-1948

Lost Indian Magic: A Mystery Story of the Red Man As He Lived Before the White Men Came

claimed to be an annotated direct transcription from her manuscript, ca. 1742; from a memoir of her husband published 183

Edwards, Sarah, 1710-1758

Dwight, Sereno Edwards, 1786-1850

Her Uncommon Discoveries of the Divine Perfections and Glory; and of the Excellency of Christ

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