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Margarete Böhme
1869–1939
A hugely popular German writer in the early 20th century, she is best remembered for the bold, bestselling novel The Diary of a Lost Girl. Her fiction often mixed page-turning storytelling with sharp attention to social pressures faced by women.
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Yhteiskunnan hylkäämä: Langenneen naisen päiväkirja
by Margarete Böhme
About the author
Born in Husum in 1867, Margarete Böhme wrote novels, short stories, sketches, and journalism, and became one of the most widely read German authors of her time. She published prolifically, with around 40 novels to her name, and built a large readership in the years before and after 1900.
Her best-known book is The Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen), first published in 1905. Presented as the story of a young woman pushed to the margins, it became an international success and helped make Böhme's name known far beyond Germany.
Although some reference sources list different birth years, major biographical pages agree that she died in 1939. Today she is remembered above all for combining popular fiction with subjects that felt daring and socially observant in her era.