Frau Pauline Brater: Lebensbild einer deutschen Frau is a German-language biographical sketch by Agnes Sapper, a widely read author of German children’s and family literature best known for her Maier family stories. The title translates as Life Portrait of a German Woman, and the work commemorates Pauline Brater, a real historical figure active in German Protestant and social reform circles in the nineteenth century.
Sapper’s gentle, moralistic prose style is well suited to this devotional biography. Download this free public-domain EPUB to encounter a piece of nineteenth-century German women’s cultural history through the lens of one of its most popular authors.