Christiane Ritter
Christiane Ritter (13 July 1897, in Karlsbad – 29 December 2000, in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and writer. She is best known, in English, for her book A Woman in the Polar Night about her stay on Svalbard in 1933.[1][2] Originally published in 1938, and translated into English in 1954 by Jane Degras, her book is one of the few accounts written from a female perspective detailing life outside civilizations before the 20th century.
References
[edit]- ^ Jones, Lucy (22 February 2020). "Christiane Ritter: Why this forgotten feminist nature writer deserves to be celebrated". The Independent. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
- ^ Brandt, Harald (17 October 2015). "Eine Lange Nacht über Spitzbergen". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-23.
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