Fanny Lewald (21 March 1811 – 5 August 1889) was a German novelist and essayist and a women's rights activist.

In 1841 she published her first novel in her cousin August Lewald's periodical Europa, under the title Der Stellvertreter.

August then asked Fanny to write a report on the coronation of King Frederick William IV in Konigsberg in 1840.

[2] Her writing often drew from her experience growing up female in a bourgeois family, advocating for better education for women and criticizing marriages of convenience.

[2] A selection of her works, published under the title Gesammelte Schriften in 12 vols (1870–1874)[2] have been translated by Hanna Lewis into English as Recollections of 1848 and The Education of Fanny Lewald.