Mathilde Blind
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was one of the leading poets of the later nineteenth century; her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound and image with vigorous narrative, delineation of character, emotional expressiveness, and engagement with intellectual ideas. It ranges from long narrative or philosophical poems to songs and sonnets. She also wrote journalism, translation, literary criticism, biography, and a novel. Much of her work is instinct with reforming and feminist opinion, reflecting the influence of
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- BirthNames: Mathilde Cohen; BlindShe did not use her father's name (Cohen), but assumed and published under the name of her stepfather, Blind.
- Pseudonyms: Alma; Claude LakeThis is the nameuses for herself in her unpublished autobiography.
- Indexed: Matilda Blind