Women in the Shadows discusses the biographies of five brilliant and talented women born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Mileva Einstein-Maric, Margarete Jeanne Trakl, Lise Meitner, Milena Jesensk , and Margarete Sch tte-Lihotzky. Charles S. Chiu creates a narrative against forgetting, as a small step out of darkness by writing about these women's accomplishments, which were overshadowed by those of the famous men in their lives. Edith Borchardt's...