This book contains eleven portraits of women whose achievements have become an integral part of the history of science. The "Silent Departure" opened a new chapter in the history of emancipation when it was first published in 1981. It was not about woman and beauty, woman and motherliness, but for the first time the focus was on woman and her intellect, woman and knowledge. From then on the author devoted herself to outstanding women of intellectual history. Feyl's subsequent historical novels all deal with a current topic: in the midst of all dependence, children, family, job, finding one's independence and living a self-determined life.
