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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.

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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.

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



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