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Edna Fern

1861–1941

Best known under the pen name Edna Fern, she was a German writer and translator whose work reached readers through fairy-tale and imaginative fiction. Her surviving bibliographic record points to a small but distinctive literary presence in the early 20th century.

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Venusmärchen: Geschichten aus einer andern Welt

Venusmärchen: Geschichten aus einer andern Welt

by Edna Fern

About the author

Edna Fern was a pen name used by Fernande Richter. Project Gutenberg identifies “Edna Fern” as an alias for her and lists Venusmärchen: Geschichten aus einer andern Welt among her works.

A major German biographical reference, Deutsche Biographie, records her full name as Fernande Anna Therese Franziska Auguste Osthaus Richter and connects her with the name Edna Fern. Based on the dates you provided, she lived from 1861 to 1941.

Publicly available information located during this search is quite limited, so it is safest to describe her as a German author who published under a pseudonym and is remembered today mainly through library and bibliographic records rather than a widely documented public biography.