BLIND, MATHILDE (1841-1896), English author, was born at Mannheim, on March 21, 1841. Her father was a banker named Cohen, but she took the name of Blind after her step father, the political writer, Karl Blind (1826-1907), one of the exiled leaders of the Baden revolt in 1848-49. Mathilde wrote three long poems, "The Prophecy of St. Oran" (1881) ; "The Heather on Fire" (1886), an indignant protest against the evic tions in the Highlands, and "The Ascent of Man" (1888), which was to be the epic of the theory of evolution. She wrote biog raphies of George Eliot (1883) and Madame Roland (1886), and translated D. F. Strauss's The Old Faith and the New and the Memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff (189o) . She died on Nov. 26, 1896, bequeathing her property to Newnham College, Cambridge.
A complete edition of her poems was edited by Mr. Arthur Symons in 'goo, with a biographical introduction by Dr. Richard Garnett.