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Bertha Eckstein-Diener
1874–1948
An Austrian writer and travel journalist, she wrote under the pseudonym Sir Galahad and became known for wide-ranging books on women, myth, and cultural history. Her best-known work, Mothers and Amazons, helped bring women to the center of historical storytelling.
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Die Kegelschnitte Gottes
by Bertha Eckstein-Diener
About the author
Born in Vienna on March 18, 1874, Bertha Eckstein-Diener was an Austrian author and journalist who also published as Sir Galahad. She traveled widely and wrote with curiosity about societies, religion, myth, and the place of women in history.
She is especially remembered for Mothers and Amazons, first published in English in the 1930s, a sweeping cultural history focused on women. The book is often noted as an early classic of women-centered cultural history, combining scholarship, storytelling, and big comparative ideas.
Eckstein-Diener died in Geneva on February 20, 1948. Though not a household name today, her work still stands out for the ambition of its scope and for asking historical questions that many later writers would return to in much greater detail.