Celebration of Women Writers

third edition; Chicago et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 190

Rijnhart, Susie Carson, 1868-1908

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior

London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 189

Inglis, Julia Selina, Lady, 1833-1904

The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary

Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922

Six Months in Mexico

Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, 1875-1938

Stratton, Helen

Sylva, Carmen

The Lily of Life: A Fairy Tale

Tudor, Tasha

1 is One

Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582

Dalton, John, 1814-1874

The Way of Perfection, and Conceptions of Divine Love

first published 1836; with illustrations added for the online editio

Griffith, Mary, -1846

Mark Ockerbloom, Mary, 1961-

Three Hundred Years Hence

Zur Mühlen, Hermynia, 1883-1951

  
 http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ presents:  
We Poor Shadows by Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883‐1951) London: Frederick Muller, 1943.  No translator named.  No indication that the work was translated.  Reproduced with permission of Patrik von zur Mühlen.   Original German title:  
Ewiges Schattenspiel.   First serialized in the Swiss newpaper Der Bund (Bern), 8 November 1938 ‐ 7 March 1939.  
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 
 
 
 
 
 
 













































































































































We Poor Shadows

Sorabji, Cornelia

Dufferin and Ava, Harriot Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of, 1843?-1936

Hobhouse, Arthur Hobhouse, Baron, 1819-1904

Love and Life Behind the Purdah

Fiennes, Celia, 1662-1741

Griffiths, Emily Wingfield

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary

University of Pennsylvania

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