Editing Eva Ibbotson (section)

==Personal life==
Wiesner was born in [[Vienna]] in 1925 to non-practising [[Jewish]] parents.<ref name=eccleshare/> Her father, [[Bertold Wiesner|Bertold Paul Wiesner]], was a physician who pioneered human infertility treatment. He is now believed to have used his own [[sperm]] to sire perhaps 600 of the children his clinic helped to be born.<ref name=fricker/> Her mother, [[Anna Gmeyner|Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner]], was a successful novelist and playwright, who had worked with [[Bertolt Brecht]] and written film scripts for [[G. W. Pabst|Georg Pabst]].<ref name=tucker/>

Wiesner's parents separated in 1928 when she was two years old. What followed for Eva was, in her words, 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.<ref name=pauli/> Her father took up a university lectureship in [[Edinburgh]], while her mother left Vienna for [[Paris]] in 1933 after her work was banned by [[Adolf Hitler]], putting a sudden end to her successful writing career.

In 1934, her mother moved to England, settling in [[Belsize Park]], north London, and sent for her daughter. Other family members also escaped from Vienna and joined Anna and Eva Maria in England, avoiding the worst of the [[Nazi German|Nazi regime]], which had already affected the family. The experience of fleeing Vienna was a strong thread throughout Ibbotson's life and work.<ref name=davies/>

Wiesner attended [[Dartington Hall School]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-07-22 |title=Eva Ibbotson: Journey of a lifetime |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/eva-ibbotson-journey-of-a-lifetime-554075.html |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=The Independent|location=London}}</ref> which she later fictionalised as Delderton Hall in her novel ''[[The Dragonfly Pool]]'' (2008). Originally, she intended to become a physiologist like her father, and earned an undergraduate degree from Bedford College, London, in 1945. During her postgraduate studies at [[Cambridge University]], she met her future husband, Alan Ibbotson, an [[Ecology|ecologist]].<ref name=telegraph/>