participants decided on the membership and composition of their library – a novelty at that time. With von Hezel's departure, Christiane Crome, the sister of August Wilhelm Crome, professor of photography science in Giessen, continued the reading circle, whose fate is unknown. References Further reading Christine Haugg: Female sociability and literary conspiracy in the run-up to the French Revolution – About the project to found a women's reading society in Giessen 1789/1790. Helga Neumann: Zwischen Emanzipation und Anpassung. Protagonistinnen des deutschen Zeitschriftenwesens im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert (1779–1795). Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann , 1999, (in German). Charlotte Henriette Hezel: weekly paper for the fair sex. Reprint of the 1779 edition. With an afterword by Hans Henning. Edition Leipzig, 1967. Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose: Book History. Volume 2. Penn State Press 1999. (English). Carl Wilhelm August von Schindel: The German Writers of the 19th Century. Leipzig 1823, pp. 212f. Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Johann Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Hezel. In: BBLD – Baltic biographical lexicon digital Hans Henning (ed.): Weekly newspaper for the fair sex. Leipzig 1967, Weckel. Pp. 59–74 Heinrich Döring: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Publisher JKG Wagner, 1831, p. 728 ff. 1755 births 1817 deaths 18th-century German women writers 19th-century German women writers 19th-century German journalists German women journalists 18th-century German journalists Occasional poets 18th-century women journalists