Clara Viebig, the most prominent woman writer among the German naturalists, was one of Germany's most successful authors for twenty-five years. Sixteen of her seventeen novels published through 1922 were best-sellers. Viebig's worldview and stylistic temperament were perfectly in accord with the perspective of naturalism. Literary critics considered her works to be in harmony with the spirit of the times; Hermann Bahr, a novelist as well as a prominent critic, said that Viebig was the only writer of the early twentieth century who accurately reflected the interests and concerns of the average German and that she created a "mirror of German conditions." Translations of her works into English, French, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, and Polish spread her reputation abroad, and lecture tours took her to most European countries and to the United States. An enthusiastic American reviewer declared in the Fatherland (30 December 1914): "What George Eliot was to England Clara...