Mathilde Blind, was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of artists an
Chalk portrait of Mathilde Blind by Lucy Madox Brown, 1872
Karl Blind was a German revolutionary and writer on politics, history, mythology and German literature. Blind participated in the Revolutions of 1848, including in the uprising in the Grand Duchy of B