In the same year that MB
's stepfather
came under attack by the Prussian government, her brother, Ferdinand Cohen Blind
, made an assassination attempt on the Prussian Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck
.
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 1-43.