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Article: The Guises of Modesty: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Female Artists.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2000
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The Guises of Modesty: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Female Artists. By FERREL V. ROSE. Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1994. 213 pp. 33.50 [pounds sterling].
Frauenbilder im Werk Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachs. By ULRIKE TANZER. (Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 334) Stuttgart: Heinz. 1997. 267 pp. DM 36.
These two books, both based on doctoral theses, represent, in the first case, a useful, in the second, a substantial contribution to modern scholarship on Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916). Both authors make ample critical use of the key autobiographical sources, and, in Ulrike Tanzer's case, of a considerable body of unpublished and scarcely known ...