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The Vulture Maiden

The Vulture Maiden () is an 1875 novel by the German writer Wilhelmine von Hillern. It is about Walburga "Wally" Stromminger, a young woman in the Tyrolean Alps, who has a pet bearded vulture and goes through hardships and amorous intrigues. It was inspired by an episode in the life of Anna Stainer-Knittel.

The novel was serialised in Deutsche Rundschau in January and February 1875 and published as a book in two volumes by Paetel in Berlin the same year. It became highly popular in the German-speaking world. It influenced the popular view of the Alps and has been adapted multiple times for stage and screen, beginning with Hillern's own theatre adaptation in 1880.

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