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Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg

Born

in Hamburg, Germany

April 01, 1879

Died

January 01, 1958

Genre

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Tilli Wolff-Mönckeberg was the daughter of a lawyer who later became Lord Mayor. (Oddly enough, Edith Henrietta Fowler’s father was Mayor of Wolverhampton and a cabinet minister.) Tilli was intelligent and well-educated but married very young and had five children. Unusually for the time, she and her husband separated during the First World War and Tilli returned to Hamburg, did some translating and took in lodgers. In 1925 she married a Professor of English who later became Rector of Hamburg University. Most of her children left Germany in the 1930s and during the Second World War, when she wrote the diary in the form of unposted letters that were later published as 'On The Other Side', she had only one married daughter left in Hamburg. Sh ...more

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Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg’s books

Average rating: 4.14 · 170 ratings · 34 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Herbst des Mittelalters. Studien über Lebens- und Geistesformen des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich und in den Niederlanden by Johan Huizinga, Kurt Köster (Translator), Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 4,341 ratings — published 1919 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940-46 4.13 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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