Description Austrian writer Baroness (Freifrau) Marie von Ebner Eschenbach (1830-1916) was one of the foremost novelists in the German tongue, and one of the best short-story writers in the world.
The Austrian aristocracy with their Slavo-German dependents in the Moravian villages constitute the world of her fiction.
Country and city are her theatres, noble and peasant keep the balance.
All forms of the short-story are at her command: letters, diaries, dialogues, and that most di.