On this Site
On this site you will find the following materials:
The Corpus (see Narrative):
- Encoded transcription and translation of the Danish first edition
- Encoded transcription and translation of the German typescript
- Encoded transcription of the German first edition
- Encoded transcription of the British first edition
- Encoded transcription of the American first edition
All versions are available for comparison in the Collation Studio.
Archival materials (see Context):
- Letters by Lili Elbe, the Poul Knudsen archive, Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Letters by Lili Elbe and her nephew, the Ernst Harthern archive, Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek (Swedish Labour Movement’s Archive and Library), Huddinge, Sweden
- Selected correspondence between the editor and German publisher, the Harthern archive
- Foreword attributed to Lili Elbe, the Harthern archive
- Articles, interviews, and book reviews in Danish periodicals of the time
- French version published in Voilà (1934), the Harthern archive
- German version published in Scherl Magazin (1931)
- Chapter on Lili Elbe from Hélène Allatini’s memoir Mosaïques (1939)
- Chapter on Lili Elbe from Magnus Hirschfeld’s Le Sexe Inconnu (1935)
The above materials have been transcribed, translated, and encoded.
- Le Livre des Vikings, by Einar Wegener and Charles de Guyot (1924)
- Syk kjærlihet [Sick Love], by Hans Jager (1893), quoted in Elbe’s narrative
- Hélène Allatini, Mosaïques (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1939)
These books are available as digital images.
Scholarly Essays (see Commentary):
- Chapter on Lili Elbe by Teit Ritzau from Paradiset er ikke til salg [Paradise is Not for Sale] (1984) (with translation)
- Introduction to Fra Mand til Kvinde (Skippershoved 1988) by Teit Ritzau (with translation)
- Essay comparing the illustrations across the four primary editions, by Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer
- "Storm clouds on the horizon: feminist ontologies and the problem of gender,' by Pamela L. Caughie, Emily Datskou & Rebecca Parker (PDF)
And much more! For assistance on using the site, please see the Site User Guide.