
Fräulein Doktor
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Beate Haßler sits confidently in her father's study, a subtle smile on her lips as she lays out a bold plan to continue her education beyond the expectations of her family. Despite her father's resistant protests, she argues with charm and logic, refusing to be confined to kitchen duties and insisting on studying law, then medicine. The lively dialogue reveals a household caught between tradition and a young woman's fierce desire for intellectual freedom.
Through witty repartee and moments of tenderness, the novel sketches the social constraints of early‑20th‑century Germany, where women's ambitions were often dismissed as frivolous. Beate's determination becomes a catalyst that challenges her father's assumptions and draws in the supportive yet pragmatic voice of her mother, a lawyer herself. Listeners will be drawn into the warm, yet tension‑filled, family dynamics as the story explores the first steps of a groundbreaking journey toward self‑realization.
Language
de
Duration
~2 hours (170K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Martin Oswald, Norbert H. Langkau, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Apr 9, 2014
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1874–1957
Writing under the pen name Fr. Lehne, this German novelist built a large popular readership with romantic and domestic fiction in the early 20th century. Her life stretched from provincial Saxony-Anhalt to Munich, where she spent the later part of her career.
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