Childless German writers

..."a considerable portion of women's lives was devoted to life-threatening childbirths and time-consuming child-rearing. It is not surprising, therefore, that a disproportionately large number of women writers were childless (half of the authors in this anthology!), or that women wrote before they were married and after their children had reached adulthood."

(from Bitter Healing: German Women Writers from 1700 to 1830. Jeannine Blackwell, Susanne Zantop. 1990, p. 22.)

-- Submitted by Beth Blevins