Mary Saran
| Mary Saran | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Maria Martha Saran 13 July 1897 Cranz, East Prussia, Germany |
| Died | 16 February 1976 (aged 78) London, England |
| Other names | M. Jensen Maria Hodann Mary Flanders |
| Occupation |
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| Spouse(s) |
Max Hodann Allan Flanders |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Richard Saran |
Maria Martha Saran, known as Mary Saran, (13 July 1897 – 16 February 1976) was a journalist and author. In 1933 she emigrated from her native Germany to England, where she took British nationality and where she lived for the rest of her life.
Mary Saran also wrote under the pseudonym M. Jensen. In addition, she was twice, albeit on the second occasion only briefly, married, and she therefore may appear in sources as Maria Hodann or Mary Flanders.
Maria Saran was born in Cranz, a small seaside town in what was then East Prussia. She was the seventh of ten recorded children born to the busy architect Richard Saran and his wife. On her mother's side Maria was a niece of the diplomat Johannes Kriege, and thereby a first cousin of the lawyer Walter Kriege and a remoter kinswoman of the early socialist Hermann Kriege. Much of her father's architectural work was undertaken as a result of his employment as a "Regierungs- und Baurat", a government appointment. The family lived a short distance to the west of Königsberg while his children were young, but in 1901 they relocated to Wiesbaden in connection with Richard Saran's work. They moved again, this time to Berlin, in 1906.
She embarked on a course in Medicine, studying at Berlin and Göttingen in 1918, and successfully completing the of the course before abandoning it. She married a young doctor called Max Hodann on 24 December 1919, which was the day on which Hodann received his doctorate for a dissertation advocating counseling centres for sufferers from Venereal diseases, entitled "Die sozialhygienische Bedeutung der Beratungsstellen für Geschlechtskranke". The marriage would end in divorce on 13 July 1926, by which time the couple's daughter, Renate, had been born, and left-wing politics had replaced medicine as the other focus of Maria's life.
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