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Baroness Stella von Musulin (1915 - 1996), was a Welsh-born Austrian writer and historian.

Born in Dale Castle in Dale, Pembrokeshire, she was educated at ???.

During World War II she worked in the British Foreign Office and in British Military Intelligence.

On 23 June 1946, in Mariazell, Austria she married Johann Emil Alexander Helfried Maria von Siege, Baron Musulin von Gomirje, the son of the former Austrian Minister to Berne.[ see: 'Decisions for War 1914-1917', R.R. Hamilton and H.H. Herwig, Cambridge Univ Press, 2004, p.50 for account of Baron von Musulin's ultimatum to Serbia on behalf of Austrian government. The couple had one son, Baron Marco Alexander Helfreid Rhodri Musulin Von Gomirje, who is an Austrian financier.(ref: Hallowes Genealogy.co.uk for family pedigree of the von Musulin family]

After the poet W. H. Auden took up residence in Austria close to her husband's family home Schloss Fridau in 1958, they became close friends.[see Ricahard Devenport-Hines, 'Auden', Heinemann, London, 1995, for detailed account of friendship between Baroness Musulin and Auden.] A forthcoming publication (April 2014) which marks the 40th anniversary of Auden's death will have an account of Stella Musulin's friendship with Auden.

Stella von Musulin was a regular contributor to Austrian Radio and to various literary and political journals, and her books included Austria People and Landscape, to which Auden wrote the forward, and Vienna in the Age of Metternich.[Stella Musulin, Austria: People and Landscape, Faber and Faber London, 1971. Stella Musulin, 'Vienna in the Age of Metternich'. Faber and Faber, London, 1975.}] She spent her later years living in the courtyard wing of Fridau Castle, she latterly suffered Parkinson’s disease.[see ; Peter Edgerly Firchow 'W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry' Rosemount Publishing, 2002, pp 133-126 which has an account of Baroness Musulin's last years, her Parkinsons disease and friendship with Auden. ==References==

• W H Auden Proceedings of the Vienna Symposium ed Michael O'Sullivan N./O. Gesefshaft Fur Kunst and Kultur Vienna 1988
• "Austria's Past Is Present" Broadcast Mar 1988 on ORF Vienna Ref: roi_e_0053.mp3 Austria’s Past is Present. 1938. Interview with Max von

Marquet and Stella Musulin. A: Michael O’Sullivan (sluitspier musketier en wijf). Marquet, Max von.; Musulin, Stella. RFA 18.02.88

• Auden Studies : Journal of the WH Auden Society contains interviews and references to Stella Musulin