Emma Clausen was a poet, translator of poetry, physician, and anarchist. She was born in 1867 in Germany, and immigrated to Canada and the United States. She was part of the anarchist circle in Detroit, Michigan, which included figures like Robert Reitzel. Her translation of '' The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' by

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

into German as ''Im Gefängnis zu Reading: Eine Ballade von C 3 3'' was published in 1902 in the journal ''

Der arme Teufel ''Der arme Teufel'' ("The Poor Devil") was a leading German-American anarchist magazine, published in German at Detroit, Michigan from 1884 to 1900, and edited mainly by the Detroit anarchist Robert Reitzel from 1884 until his death in 1898. Hist ...

''. She is the first woman translator of ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' in any language. In 1906 she published a poem in

Mother Earth (magazine) ''Mother Earth'' was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States, it publish ...

. Her book of poetry ''Im Vorübergehn: Gedichte'' was published in 1956.

Publications

*''Im Vorübergehn''. The Commonwealth Press, Los Angeles, California 1956. *''Kleinigkeiten''. 1958.

References

Year of death missing 1867 births German women writers German women poets {{Germany-writer-stub