by Eveline Hasler · Verlag Nagel & Kimche AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783312001750
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«Die Wachsflügelfrau» is the historical novel by Eveline Hasler, published by Verlag Nagel & Kimche AG in paperback (333 pages, in German).
Novel about Emily Kempin-Spyri, the first female jurist in the German-speaking world and niece of Johanna Spyri. In 1899, with her life's project failed, she applies for a position as a maid in a pastor's house. Hasler unearths a silenced story, more than an early emancipation with a tragic end.
The book's subtitle is «Geschichte der Emily Kempin-Spyri» and the cover features the mention «Roman». The narrative is set within the history of female emancipation in Switzerland between 1880 and 1900.
For readers of German literature interested in fictionalised biographies of pioneering women and in the history of female emancipation.
Eveline Hasler is a Swiss writer. She has written novels and children's books which have been translated into many languages. One of her most-read works is the novel Anna Goeldin – The Last Witch. It fictionalizes one of the last witchcraft trials in Europe and was published in 1982, at the bicentennial of the execution of Anna Göldi. Hasler was awarded a Schiller Foundation prize for her first novel Novemberinsel.
