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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Austrian Author
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Marie, Baroness von Ebner-Eschenbach, a distinguished Austrian author. She wrote a number of novels depicting the life of the Austrian aristocracy in town and country, and in published a book of Parables, Fairy Tales and Poems.

Her power of description, elegance of style and masterly analysis of character give her a foremost place among the women-writers of her time.

On the occasion of her seventieth birthday, the University of Vienna conferred upon her the degree of doctor of philosophy.

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Reference: Famous Women; An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women By Joseph Adelman. Copyright, by Ellis M. Lonow Company.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach () Austria's premiere woman author was born Countess Dubsky at Zdislawitz Castle nea r Kremsier in Moravia. Much to the disapproval of her family, she began writing in her childhood. This was considered an unseemly activity for a noblewoman. When Ebner-Eschenbach was seventeen her stepmother sent her verses to the well-known Austrian writer Franz Grillparzer for an appraisal of her talent, hoping for a negative assessment. Instead, Grillparzer wrote back complimenting the girl's "power of expression" and "talent for precise judgment." Heartened by these words from a literary figure she admired and respected, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach settled on her career, no longer so hindered by family censure. The milieu of her best known works, the stories and novels, was provincial Moravia during the pre-March period and the urban life of the petit bourgeoisie and noble classes in Vienna. She carefully examined the daily routine of the "little man and woman." The plots are often based on the author's memories of her youth and provide a sharp, but humane insight into castle and village relationships in the Biedermeier period. As t