"Anna Louisa Karsch (1 December 1722 in Hammer, Silesia – 12 October 1791 in Berlin) was a German autodidact and poet from the Silesia region, known to her contemporaries as "Die Karschin" and "the German Sappho".:619 She became the first German woman to "live from the proceeds of her own literary works."" - (en.wikipedia.org 29.10.2019)
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