“She dies from never having experienced a love of her own volition.”
German writer Margarete Böhme was born #OTD in 1867.
She is best known for her controversial and highly successful novel, "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen", first published in 1905. It purportedly tells the true story of Thymian, a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution. A movie was made based on this book (Tabea, stehe auf! 1922).
Books by Margarete Böhme at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margarete+B%C3%B6hme&submit_search=Go%21