Andrea Emily StumpfAndrea Emily Stumpf is the great-great-granddaughter of Sayyida Salme / Emily Ruete. She is in a direct line through the women of five generations over a century and a half. As a lawyer and trained wordsmith, she uses her native English and German tobridge the gap from the original nineteenth-century publication to an accurate, updated translation that is easy to read and hard to put down. In a gesture of respect for a remarkable woman and voice, and in the interest of scholarship looking to an original source, she has written this new translation for readers worldwide, both to honor her remarkable ancestor's voice and to replace the flawed historical translations that are otherwise so widely available. Read More Read Less