Born: 21 March 1841, Germany
Died: 26 November 1896
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: Mathilde Cohen
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) an English author. Two of her longer poems are “The Heather on Fire” (1886), an indignant protest against the evictions in the Highlands, and “The Ascent of Man,” which traces the progress of man from his primitive condition in a state of savagery to his present development. She also wrote biographies of George Eliot (1883) and Madame Roland (1886), and translated the “Memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff” (1890). Her minor poems, many of which are strong, in feeling and admirable in form, entitle her to a distinguished place among the lyric poets of England. Miss Blind was an ardent advocate of the betterment of the position of woman in society and the state. To this end she worked and wrote for an improved education, and against a onesided morality for the sexes. On her death, she bequeathed her property to Newham College, Cambridge.