first women's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" appeared in 1693). Initially, the writings were published by men, until 1779 the Hamburg woman Ernestine Hofmann – anonymously and without revealing her female identity – was the first woman to publish the sheet for Hamburg's daughters, but hit "behind the fictitious authority of a wise old ... counsellor and woman friend". Charlotte von Hezel followed her in the same year, also anonymously, but was open about the fact that she was a woman, and gave clear indications about her real-life identity. The magazine was published twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a length of eight pages each. The issues were mainly devoted to art and artist stories,Frauenzimmer- Dietetik, and the display of new writings. Hezel sought to convey to women the content of the weekly newspaper knowledge that went beyond the area of family life and the effectiveness of contemporary women, which was largely limited to home and family. The title page was often adorned with a gloss or a poem. In the first edition, Hezel published one of her own poems. For the first time in a weekly there was a series of articles dealing with the women's diets from a popular medical point of view. According to the editor, these were written by a doctor; however, she does not name the author. Possibly it was Hezel's brother Ernst Schwabe , who was a medical professor in Giessen. Another section contained popular scientific treatises, for example "About the Age of Sealing Wax or Spanish Waxes" or "History of the Engraving Art", while fictional entertainment played no role in the script. The weekly only appeared in four booklets for eight months, according to von Hezel, not because there was a lack of subscribers, but because the then unreliable postal distribution channels caused too many difficulties. In a last post, Hezel made her displeasure with the Nuremberg and the difficulties and delays in public postal delivery. Archangeli had 163 subscribers, both male and female. Women's Reading Society In 1786, Charlotte von Hezel and other wives of Giessen university professors founded a women's reading society in which men were denied access by statute ("... where no hint of a male nation should touch the room ..."). The founders cooperated with the bookseller Friedrich Justus warrior who created the logistical requirements, so the premises and the book and journal collection made available. Only the