Maria Stona

Maria Stona; Marie Scholz; born Stonawski (1859–1944) was a writer and poet born in a part of Austria-Hungary that later became Czechoslovakian. Her daughter was the sculptor Helen Zelezny-Scholz.

In Třebovice she led artistic salon. She drew into her circles many noticeable persons, world-famous artists, politicians and writers such as Georg Brandes, Georges Clemenceau, Berta von Suttner, Flinders Petrie, Stefan Zweig, being among her guests in her home the Chateau of Třebovice (Strzebowitz).

She corresponded regularly with Georg Brandes from 1899 to his death 1927.

Maria Stona died in 1944, during the World War II. In the course of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Red Army her chateau was damaged and subsequently was deteriorating. It was completely demolished in 1958.

Some of her books are available at The Royal Library in Copenhagen, which also holds some of her letters in the "Georg Brandes Arkivet". Provided by Wikipedia