Gabriele Reuter

Gabriele Reuter (8 February 1859 – 16 November 1941) was a German writer. Gabriele Reuter, who was widely read in her lifetime though now is almost forgotten, was known for her novel From a Good Family (Aus guter Familie, 1895), subtitled "the Passion of a Girl", which described a typical young woman of the Wilhelmine era. Other bestsellers were her novels Ellen of the Meadows (Ellen von der Weiden, 1900), the short story collection Women's Souls (Frauenseelen, 1901) and the novel The Americans (Der Amerikaner, 1907).