Minna Wettstein-Adelt

Minna Wettstein-Adelt (1869-died around 1908, precise date unknown) was a German-French journalist and writer, who also wrote under the names Aimée Duc and Helvetia.

She edited Draisena, a journal for ladies riding bikes, and was the publisher of the Berlin Modekorrespondenz (Fashion Letter).

[1] After the Christian Socialist Paul Göhre published an account of three months spent working in a Chemnitz machine tool factory in 1891, Wettstein-Adelt undertook a similar experiment.

However, she could be disapproving of the "beasts" and "reptiles" into whose midst she was thrown, and her main recommendation was that the "upper ten thousand" who she envisaged as her readers should become factory supervisors.

[3] Her pseudonymously published 1901 novel Are They Women portrayed a group of "independent, intellectually driven, same-sex loving female medical students"[4] in Switzerland: the students in the novel view themselves as a 'third sex', and at the heart of the book is a successful lesbian relationship between two of them, Minotchka and Marta.