Gretchen Reinwalds letztes Schuljahr (Gretchen Reinwald’s Last School Year) is a German-language story by Agnes Sapper, explicitly written for girls aged thirteen to sixteen. Sapper was one of the most popular authors of children’s and family literature in Wilhelmine Germany, and her work typically combined gentle moral guidance with warmhearted storytelling and realistic domestic settings.
This school story follows Gretchen through the challenges and friendships of her final year of school, offering a window into German bourgeois girlhood around the turn of the twentieth century. Download this free public-domain EPUB for a charming piece of early German girls’ literature.