Adelma von Vay from Slovenske Konjice in the Context of Contemporary Austrian Women Writers
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spiritism, spiritualism, automatic writing, magnetismAbstract
The spiritualist author and healer Adelma von Vay, who was well-known in her time, spent her productive life in southern Styria. Now her work is receiving renewed attention in Slovenia: in recent research, her work is placed in local networks and in the context of global esoteric references. To understand Vay, however, it is just as revealing to shed light on the specific situation of women writers in the Danube Monarchy of their time, including Vay. This article places her in this context by presenting the general situation of intellectual women and by comparing Vay with the central women authors of the time. In doing so, some possible explanations for her own writing process can be suggested.
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