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Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (book)
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (or ''The Diary of a Lost Girl'') is a book by the German author Margarete Böhme (1867-1939). It purportedly tells the true-life story of Thymian, a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution. When first published in 1905, the book was said to be a genuine diary, though speculation quickly arose as to its authorship.
Due in part to its sensational subject matter, the book proved extremely popular. By the end of the Twenties, it had sold more than 1,200,000 copies, ranking it among the bestselling books of its time.〔Donald Ray Richards. ''The German Bestseller in the 20th Century: A Complete Bibliography and Analysis 1915-1940'', Herbert Lang, 1968.〕 One contemporary scholar has called it "Perhaps the most notorious and certainly the commercially most successful autobiographical narrative of the early twentieth century".〔Katharina Gerstenberger. ''Truth to Tell: German Women's Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture'', University of Michigan Press, 2000.〕
==Publishing history==
Böhme’s book was first published in 1905 as ''Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, Von einer Toten'' (''The Diary of a Lost Girl, by One Who is Dead''), by F. Fontane & Co., a leading German publisher. More than 30,000 copies were sold within the first four months of publication. Less than two years later, in 1907, a deluxe edition was issued marking more than 100,000 copies in print.〔Arno Bammé. ''Margarete Böhme Die Erfolgsschriftstellerin aus Husum'', Profil, 1994.〕
Within a few years, ''Tagebuch einer Verlorenen'' was translated into 14 languages. Interest was so great there were even pirated versions in both Poland and The Netherlands. The book remained in print more than 25 years, until it was driven out-of-print by groups seeking to suppress it at the beginning of the Nazi era.〔Thomas Gladysz. Introduction to ''The Diary of a Lost Girl'' (Louise Brooks edition), PandorasBox Press, 2010.〕
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