![]() Though she and Albert share dreams of living a bohemian life together of intellect and discovery, he doesn’t stand by her when his vision of success seems clearer without her.Īs a feminist, the part of the novel I found the most particularly compelling was the meeting between Mitza and Madame Curie, where the differences between their husbands and situations could not be more clear. ![]() The novel follows Mileva (or “Mitza”) from her time as the only female physics student at a Zurich university, where she meets Albert Einstein. Like the author before she dove into research, I hadn’t heard of this “other” Einstein before and I was intrigued when I learned about this novel last fall. Marie Benedict’s novel The Other Einstein explores the life of this extraordinary woman a bit further. ![]() A physicist and likely genius in her own right, her contributions to Albert’s theories has been debated in the physics world for decades. In the case of Albert Einstein, however, the life and accomplishments of his first wife Mileva are not widely known. ![]() In many cases, those relationships are public and well-documented, as in the case of the Roosevelts. ![]() As the saying goes, beside every great man, there is a great woman. ![]()
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