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3 unusual facts about Helen Zimmern


Helen Zimmern

Through her advocacy and translations, Zimmern made European culture - whether that of Germany, or, increasingly, Italy - accessible to English speakers.

She would also write for Fraser's Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, St James's, Pall Mall Magazine, the World of Art, the Italian Rassegna Settimanale and various German papers.

She befriended Friedrich Nietzsche, two of whose books she would later translate, in Switzerland in the mid-1880s.



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