Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By adulthood, Chavelita Dunne (later GE ) had already gained proficiency in five or six languages, including Swedish. She now taught herself Norwegian and read widely among the Scandinavian authors, including Ibsen , August Strindberg

At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Tillie was a difficult child, skipping family chores to spend time at the public library, with its huge painting of...

As an adult she rejected Christianity [and] assumed instead a pagan stance derived primarily from Nietzsche , elsewhere defined as pantheism or humanitarian heathenism. She was interested in European witchcraft, especially that...

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...