Fanny Lewald was a German author born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). A novelist and a feminist, she wrote mainly concerning family, marriage, and social problems.
I read Fanny Lewald's story in my History of Germany class. It is an autobiography of the most popular and prolific German woman writer of her period (1811-1889). Fanny Lewald was the author of more than 50 books of fiction, travel memoirs, and articles about current events.