17 Facts About Mathilde Blind

Mathilde Blind was praised by Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Michael Rossetti, Amy Levy, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Symons and Arnold Bennett.

Mathilde Blind's much-discussed poem The Ascent of Man presents a distinctly feminist response to the Darwinian theory of evolution.

Mathilde Blind had a brother, Ferdinand, two half-brothers, and a half-sister, Ottilie, from the marriage of Friederike and Karl Blind.

Cohen died in 1848, the same year her mother remarried to Karl Mathilde Blind, who was involved in the Baden insurrection of 1848.

In London, Mathilde Blind attended the Ladies' Institute, St John's Wood, where she was a friend of future novelist Rosa Nouchette Carey.

Mathilde Blind took private lessons from the renowned philosopher and Sanscrit scholar Kuno Fischer.

Mathilde Blind was motivated in part by his stepfather Karl Blind and other revolutionary exiles living in London, who were outraged by the way Bismarck treated the German states like pawns in his empire-building strategy.

Many years later, Mathilde Blind shared with her friend Moncure Conway the contents of a letter she had received from her brother in the spring of 1866.

Brown and Mathilde Blind were emotionally intimate from the mid-1870s until Brown's death in 1893, although this devotion caused considerable turmoil in his family.

Mathilde Blind's only novel, Tarantella, a prose romance, is a remarkable work in many ways, but was neither a commercial nor a popular success.

In 1889, Mathilde Blind published The Ascent of Man, whose title poem is an ambitious response to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

In 1890, Mathilde Blind was the subject of a profile in Woman, the magazine that Arnold Bennett would write for and edit in the 1890s.

Mathilde Blind travelled widely in Italy and Egypt in the early 1890s, partly drawn by the love of nature and antiquity and partly due to her failing health.

Mathilde Blind died in London on 26 November 1896, bequeathing to Newnham College, Cambridge, the greater part of her property, which had mostly come to her late in life as a legacy from a half-brother Meyer Jacob Cohen.

Mathilde Blind was cremated in Woking, and her ashes were later placed in a monument erected by a friend and sponsor, Ludwig Mond, and designed by Edouard Lanteri in St Pancras Cemetery.

Mathilde Blind's poetry combines great beauty of sound and image with vigorous narrative, delineation of character, emotional expressiveness, and engagement with intellectual ideas.

Mathilde Blind noted that Blind, by re-configuring "a new myth of creativity and gender", demonstrated the best that this tradition could achieve in social and political analysis.