Baroness von Beck claimed that her husband Baron von Beck had lost his life in the Viennese Revolution, and thought that Mr Pulszky did not deserve the high position he filled in London Society, as his conduct had been questionable in Vienna.
She also criticized his private life as well
Pulszky was forewarned of the attack about six weeks before the publication of the book.
A man called, or using the non de plume of Ferdinand de Carl wrote to Pulszky on 16 January 1851 that unless he makes a generous pecuniary contribution to the authoress, he will be attacked in the German language edition of her work, all the more, as Pulszky had succeeded in 1850 to persuade the publisher of the English edition to suppress her criticism of his person
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