Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s journals, which she kept for many decades, are significant for many reasons – for her biography, for the creative process in her works, for literary history (with a wealth of aphorisms) and – as the documentation of the life of an aristocrat in the Austro-Hungarian Empire – for cultural history.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s journals, which she kept for many decades, are significant for many reasons – for her biography, for the creative process in her works, for literary history (with a wealth of aphorisms) and – as the documentation of the life of an aristocrat in the Austro-Hungarian Empire – for cultural history.