Women in the Shadows

Women in the Shadows discusses the biographies of five brilliant and talented women born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Mileva Einstein-Mari, Margarete Jeanne Trakl, Lise Meitner, Milena Jesensk, and Margarete Schtte-Lihotzky. Charles S. Chiu creates a narrative against forgetting, as a small step out of darkness by writing about these womens accomplishments, which were overshadowed by those of the famous men in their lives. Edith Borchardts translation brings this narrative to a wider audience. Women in the Shadows will interest scientists and scholars in the humanities as well as the general reader. The women portrayed represent various fields mathematics, physics, music and literature, journalism, and architecture making Women in the Shadows suitable for courses on the history of science, German and Austrian studies, as well as womens studies.