Helen Fronius studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, for an undergraduate degree in History and germna. Her postgraduate studies began with an MSt in Women's Studies at Oxford, which was followed by a DPhil on women writers in the Goethe era (on which this book is based). She has been working as a college lecturer in German in Oxford, and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher on an AHRC-funded project. Her current research is an interdisciplinary study of infanticide in the late eighteenth century.