author
Emil Marriot
1855–1938
A widely read Austrian novelist and journalist of the realist tradition, she wrote under a masculine pen name and became known for vivid stories of Viennese life and sharp attention to social pressures, especially those shaping women’s lives.
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Der geistliche Tod: Roman. Zehnte Auflage.
by Emil Marriot
About the author
Born in Vienna in 1855 as Emilie Mataja, she published under the name Emil Marriot and built a successful literary career in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Austrian reference sources and library records describe her as a novelist, dramatist, and journalist, and note that she began writing young, published her first novel in 1880, and broke through with Familie Hartenberg a couple of years later.
She also worked as a feuilleton writer for the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung. Her fiction is generally linked with literary realism and is remembered for its strong sense of Viennese society, along with an engaged interest in social conflict and the limited choices available to women.
Although far less famous today than she was in her own lifetime, later scholarly work has stressed that she once enjoyed both a substantial readership and critical respect. She died in Vienna in 1938.