[MWS 5.1 (2005) 131-167] ISSN 1470-8078 Book Reviews Bärbel Meurer (ed.), Marianne Weber: Beiträge zu Werk und Person (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004), pp. 272. ISBN 3-16-148162-3. €49. This book is based on a conference held at Oerlinghausen, near Bielefeld, in 1998 that was organized by Richard Grathoff and Barbara Meurer. It represents an important development in research into Marianne Weber and it is entirely fitting that the Marianne Weber-Institut at Oerlinghausen should be the locus of research since Marianne Weber7 s own family was based there and nearby Lemgo. Some additional articles have been included, so providing greater depth and coverage. In this review I will re-order the materials of separate authors more on narrative lines, eliminating some of the overlaps, filling in some of the gaps and indicating where unresearched themes remain. But first it has to be said that though the contributors tend to go their own separate ways the volume as a whole presents an unrivalled picture of Marianne Weber and her work, and the majority of the contributors offer new material using primary sources. Werk und Person is a well-established genre in German analysis, though one proba bly not precise enough for the range of issues that are being addressed here. Person is less the biographical flesh and blood subject but rather the persona. Persona, I would suggest, is the constructed self in its publicly accepted face and it lies between the psychophysical individual and the biographical subject who is bom into a society and moves through it. For Marianne Weber we need more than two channels (work and persona). We need the contexting society, the persona, the particularity of a biog raphy, and (if one is going to get indecently close) the psychophysical individual. Marianne Weber had a formidable persona and to an extent it is still at work today. This volume in part exemplifies this and in part gives us the material to probe its construction. Guenther Roth drawing on his extensive and path-breaking research on the ex tended Weber family provides the structural basis for analysis. Fie places Marianne in the particular traditions of four generations of the family and the role of wives and daughters. As recounted in his Max Webers deutsch-englische Familiengeschichte 1800 1950} the Weber family wealth was established by the international Frankfurt mer chant Carl Cornelius Souchay and his sons Charles and John in Manchester. One of his daughters, Emilie, married the widowed Georg Fallenstein and set the pattern for the succeeding generations of men folk to draw a hefty income from the yield on the Souchay inheritance. The men (Flermann Baumgarten who married Ida Fallenstein, 1. Reviewed by W.J. Mommsen in Max Weber Studies 3.1 (2002), pp. 99-109. See also the review by S. Whimster, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London 25.1 (2003), pp. 88-100.© Max Weber Studies 2005, Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London El 7NT, UK. 132 Max Weber Studies Max Weber Sr Helene Fallenstein, and Adolf Hausrath Emilie Fallenstein) in claiming the Fallenstein sisters as teenage brides were by law the full masters of their wives' property. They were, as Roth notes, liberal in politics but patriarchal within the home. Weber Sr restricted Helene spending her money on charity, read all correspondence addressed to her, and determined the life of the household. The Fallenstein sisters resented their husbands, finding the men's sense of religion superficial, their aware ness of suffering calloused, and their national liberalism in its martial patriotism hard to stomach. The Fallenstein sisters were locked into the international family networks across Germany and England and preserved something of the cosmopolitan atmos phere of the Frankfurt Souchays, while the men were fated to pursue the ponderous attitudes of the foundation generation of the German Reich and the emphatic patriar chalism of Bismarck. Since this is a Bielefeld-related volume, it is worth taking the political/private interface a tittle further. Meurer points out that while national liberalism was a leading political force in the new Reich, domestic conservatism was emphasized in the private sphere. Both Marianne and...