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Pauline Hann
b. 1855
An Austrian-born writer who built a literary life in New York, she wrote fiction that appeared in the late 19th century. Her work offers a glimpse of a German-language author working across continents and cultures.
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Anspruchslose Geschichten
by Pauline Hann
About the author
Born in 1855 in Hořice, in Bohemia, Pauline Hann is identified in reference works as a novelist and publicist. Late-19th-century sources place her in New York and describe her as active in America as a writer of novellas and shorter prose.
She is known for the 1891 book Anspruchslose Geschichten, a collection of stories in German. A contemporary biographical source also credits her with the novella Zum Manne gereift, suggesting a small but distinct place in the world of German-language women writers of her time.
Although not much widely available biographical detail seems to survive online, the record that does remain points to an immigrant author whose writing connected her Bohemian origins with literary work in the United States.