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Bianca Bobertag
1846–1900
A once-popular German novelist from Breslau, she wrote sharp, socially observant fiction about marriage, intellectual life, and the pressures placed on women in the late 19th century.
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Eheglück: Roman
by Bianca Bobertag
About the author
Born Bianca Marbach in Breslau in 1846, she became known as Bianca Bobertag after marrying the German literary historian Felix Bobertag. She also published under the pseudonyms Victor Valentin and Irenäus Wasservogel.
Her work centered on the social world around her, especially educated middle-class life in Breslau, relationships, and questions of women's rights. Though she is less widely known today, modern scholarship has noted how closely her fiction engaged with the academic, literary, and women's-rights circles of her time.
She died in 1900. One of the works still readily found today is Eheglück, a late-19th-century novel that reflects her interest in love, marriage, and social expectation.