Amelia Freund née Rüdiger or Amelia Lewis (1824 – 1887)Amelia Rudiger
at myheritage.com was born in

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

. She was an inventor, editor and a campaigner for socialism and women's equality.

Life

Freund was born in

in 1824 or 1825. She married Dr

Jonas Charles Hermann Freund Jonas Charles Hermann Freund (1808 – 29 December 1879) was an Austrian-British physician, known as the co-founder of the German Hospital in London. Career Born to a Jewish family in Bohemia, Freund received a medical degree at the University of ...

on 18 March 1846, in London, who was

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

's doctor. They had eight children and after they were born Feund became active in feminist societies. Woman-The Social Review edited by Amelia Lewis

Woman-The Social Review edited by Amelia Lewis

In 1872 she launched her first magazine "Woman: The Social Review" with herself as editor under the pen name Amelia Lewis. Despite changing the name to the "Social Review" in the same year the magazine ended having stated its positive views on educational and gender equality and the reform of labour laws. She launched a similar journal, "Women's Opinion" in 1874 but again within months it had gone from a weekly, to a monthly and then ceased to exist. The magazine had intended to not let "one sex answer for the other". Freund was taking an interest in food and her improved stove was shown at the Inventor's Institute. Her "People's Stove" was intended to save fuel and to burn straw or peat. Her patented stove contained a "frizzler" which fried without hardening. In 1876 she launched the "National Food and Fuel Reformer" weekly journal and this continued to be printed until 1876, when she launched in parallel her journal "The Housekeeper: A Domestic Journal". Meanwhile, her stove won a prize at the 1875 Paris Exhibition. The stove could be used as an alternative to a grate using a quarter or a third of the fuel. It was claimed to cook and heat the room. In 1879 she again launched a journal this time titled. "Food and Health Leaves" and this lasted eight months. This was her last journal launch. Her son,

John Christian Freund John Christian Freund (November 23, 1848 – June 3, 1924) was a British-American magazine publisher, playwright, and music critic. He founded several magazines, including ''The Music Trades''. Early life Freund was born in London, England. He ...

, launched a magazine titled " The Deep Blue" in 1871 and this attracted leading socialist writers and his mother. Her son's lack of success caused him to emigrate to the United States in 1873 and after her husband died Freund followed in 1879. Freund was mentioned in New York Times in 1881 but no further information is available.James Gregory, ‘Freund , Amelia Louisa melia Lewis(b. 1824/5, d. in or after 1881)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200
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