The daughter of Cäsar Delle Grazie, inspector general for Erste Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft and director for a coal mining company, she was born in Weißkirchen in Hungary.

She was educated at a girls' school and then attended one year at Sankt Anna, a teachers college.

She continued her education with Laurenz Müllner [de], a professor of Christian philosophy at the University of Vienna.

[1][3][4] Delle Grazie wrote poetry from an early age, publishing her first collection Gedichte in 1882.

Ein moderners Epos, an epic poem in iambic pentameter published in 1894, is considered one of her best works.