Adelaide von Furstatte

## Early life

Adelaide von Furstatte was born in her family's royal household in Silesia, a long lasting minor dynasty in the area that goes back to the times of an independant Bohemia. Funnily enough her life got \*better\* because of the numerous religious uprisings and infighting, with a considerably less powerful church in the revolutions she was able to take some leeway in her own life. In the modern day she is surprisingly independant. Going against church doctrine in her own version of “protestantism”, but she really just uses that as a disguise.

## Literary career

Adelaide von Furstatte is mostly known for being the writer behind A.R. Vonnegut. She used Vonnegut's name as a pseudonym to be able to publish her works as a woman. Her first book "High and Low" was published in 1840 and was widely successful, even getting attention in the Allgemeine Preussische Staats-Zeitung. The book follows the perspective of two different characters, one named Isalda, a low class woman working with her family to run their small shop. And the other, Nobility named Karl von Pazin, who manages his estate in the Tribla county. The story gives reflections on the lives of both characters, describing the simple life of Isalda and their families devoutness in Christianity and God. And von Pazin as being drowned in paperwork, unable to do anything he finds fun, yet unwilling to delegate to others as he believes they wouldn't do the job correctly. Isalda laughs and plays, yet is often swamped in ideas and teachings. Its important for her to marry, she better stand tall and straight. So many things to keep track of, her job is to please the one she marries. She and her friends share gossip, words of men and politics. While Pazin sits in balls and rooms, hearing men argue for reasons that don't mean anything in the end. The arguments a battlefield in their own right, men firing bullets of words at each other. Stories upon stories, yet the book reminds each and every reader of one thing. Both of these people are human, both of them have their own jobs in society. But it is up to them, they choose their own path.

In 1845, von Furstatte started publishing "High and Low" under her own name as new laws made it possible to do so. In that same year, she released her next book titled "Battlefield of Words". The book begins through the view of Heinrich von Kurgan. Nobility from Ostpreussen. He sits as an Independent in the Landtag, swearing no direct allegiance to any of the voting Bloc's. He watches them fight each other over and over again, calling each other traitors and bastards, they are destroying the country or they are destroying the democratic system. Leaders are removed and replaced daily, someone always upset at how they are running the individual factions. It covers the people and their groveling, always complaining about something or another. And the constant complaints and accusations of radicalism, only encouraging more and more of it as time goes on. It shows these individual politicans as if they were soldiers, each believing in their own cause and brandishing their own swords. Willing to strike the other for some vauge concept of glory, but at the end of the day both of these soldiers are still people, and they can work together to build a better future for everyone if only they would stop attacking each other and start helping the people.

In 1848, Adelaide moved to the United States, only returning in 1850 to publish a new book, "A New Future". The book breaks with Ada's traditional sense of writing from the perspective of a single character, instead working from a view of the world. It describes a new universe, separated into two continents, both are fractured amongst nation states, but in the west a nation stands as a shining light, where every citizen can speak their mind as they feel and can look at the world through an open lens. But nothing is perfect, it has a seedy underbelly of trade in drugs and humans. And to the east the continent is filled with harsh rulers, every person is muzzled and there is a cost to speak freely, the military makes choices for the populace, not letting them have any say in their affairs. And the leader of each of these nations carry their sword with them, laughing as men die in the fields of battle and toasting to victories amongst the bloodied fields. But there is always a benefit, in the end the east is organized, ruled efficiently and the people never hear a word about the rebellions against there rule. In the end, there is no war. No great battle for leadership over the world, but the people of the east learn to speak, they learn to think for themselves. The last page of the book ends with the armies of the east defeated by the same people they rule over.

## Personal life

During her lifetime, Adelaide von Furstatte was engaged in a romantic relationship with Elouise von Märchenlied. Together they formed the basis of the German women's right movement. In addition, von Furstatte also had correspondence with German suffragist Louise Otto-Peters. In 1852, Adelaide von Furstatte closed down her Textile Mill in Brandenburg as a result of an increase in tariffs. In 1855, Adelaide gave up her noble titles in protest against Wilhelm von Hoth's recent ennoblement among other things. Adelaide von Furstatte died in 1862.