Sophie Pataky

[1] He had founded a specialist publishing house for metal technology in Vienna in 1875,[2] where Pataky collaborated alongside her "family duties.

Initially, Pataky had no connections to the feminist movement, but did attend the International Women's Congress at the Berlin Town Hall in the summer of 1896.

At that time, the most recent encyclopedia was Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel's work Die deutschen Schriftstellerinnen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, which had been published in the 1820s.

By including cookbook authors, journalists, and editors among others, she provided a more comprehensive picture of women writers than, for example, Franz Brümmer, who published at the same time.

She had the authors presented in Deutsche Frauen der Feder send her their own works, which were then collected in the Bibliothek deutscher Frauenwerke.