Ellen Key Critical Essay | Critical Essay by The New York Times Book Review

Critical Essay by The New York Times Book Review

SOURCE: "When the Child Gets His Rights," in The New York Times Book Review, March 6, 1909, p. 128.

In the following review, the anonymous author praises The Century of the Child, noting, however, that many of Key's assertions will already be taken for granted by American readers because of the direction of the women's movement in the United States at the time of the work's publication in English.

Among the books of serious import that have been published in Germany during the last year or two, none has attracted wider attention or caused more general discussion than Ellen Key's The Century of the Child. It has won the consideration of the Kaiser, has gone through more than twenty editions, and has been published in several other European countries. The author was formerly among the foremost champions of the feminist movement in Germany, but she severed her connection with the...
(read more)