![]() The experience of fleeing Vienna was a strong thread throughout Ibbotson's life and work.Įva Wiesner attended Dartington Hall School, which she later fictionalised as Delderton Hall in her novel The Dragonfly Pool (2008). Other family members also escaped from Vienna and joined Anna and Eva in London, avoiding the worst of the Nazi regime, which had already affected the family. In 1934 she settled in Belsize Park in North London, and sent for her daughter. ![]() In 1933 her mother left Berlin for Paris in 1933, after her work was banned by Hitler, putting a sudden end to her successful writing career. ![]() What followed for Eva was a " very cosmopolitan, sophisticated and quite interesting, but also very unhappy childhood, always on some train and wishing to have a home," as she later recalled. Her father took up a university lectureship in Edinburgh. ![]() She had worked with Bertolt Brecht and written film scripts for G. Her mother, Anna Gmeyner, was a successful novelist and playwright. ![]() Eva Ibbotson was born Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner in Vienna, Austria in 1925 to non-practising Jewish parents. Her father, Berthold Wiesner, was a physician who pioneered human infertility treatment. ![]()
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