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For several years, the countess continued to produce novels bearing a certain subjective resemblance to those of George Sand, but less hostile to social institutions, and dealing almost exclusively with aristocratic society.

The author's patrician leanings at length drew upon her the merciless ridicule of Fanny Lewald in a parody of her style entitled Diogena.

Roman von Iduna Gräfin H ..- H .. ( 1847 ), and this, as well as the death of Adolf Bystram in 1849, and the revolutions of 1848 seem to have co-operated in inducing her to embrace the Roman Catholic religion in 1850.

She justified her step in a polemical work entitled Von Babylon nach Jerusalem ( 1851 ), which elicited a vigorous reply from Heinrich Abeken, and from several others as well.