Eva Erisso

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Eva Erisso (1912 - 1994) was a Viennese Baroness.

Erisso was the grand-niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the mother of Marianne Faithfull. She was born in Budapest, when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. She was of descendent of the Habsburg Dynasty and half Jewish;^[1] As a young woman she worked as a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company, and danced for productions of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Being both of Jewish heritage and a socialist, Erisso fled Nazi-controlled Austria during World War II with Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, a British army officer and spy. The couple married in 1946 and late that year had their only child, daughter Marianne Faithfull (born Marian Evelyn), and lived together at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, before separating six years later.

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