Countess Erika's Apprenticeship

Ossip Schubin, the nom de plume of Austrian writer Aloisia Kirschner (1854–1934), was a prominent novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into the milieu of the Austro-Hungarian nobility, Kirschner adopted her pen name from a character in a story by Ivan Turgenev, a reflection of the influence Russian literature had on her work. Her literary career was marked by an insightful depi...