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Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
1854–1934
A prolific British novelist with German-Jewish roots, she wrote dozens of books that explored life between England and Germany. Her fiction often drew readers into questions of family, faith, identity, and social change.
2 Audiobooks
Home Life in Germany
by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
The Children's Book of Gardening
by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, Mrs. Paynter
About the author
Born Cecily Wilhelmine Ullmann in London in 1854, she became known to readers as Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick after her 1883 marriage to the writer and philosopher Alfred Sidgwick. She also published under the name Andrew Dean.
She was a remarkably productive author, publishing around 45 novels as well as nonfiction. Much of her work centered on Jewish life in England and Germany, and on the tensions and connections between those two cultures.
Sidgwick died on August 10, 1934. Though less widely read today, her books remain notable for the way they brought cross-cultural experience and questions of belonging into popular fiction.