What is a woman author? The early 20th century saw the emergence of a new concept, Frauendichtung (women's writing), a mode of discourse that fundamentally reframed the question of female-and thus also, by contrast, of male-authorship. The paradigm of women's writing as it emerged on the threshold to modernity, when it was associated with a kind of timeless knowledge, has been at best cursorily treated in extant scholarship. It is at the focus of...