Fiction · 1898
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
A young Englishwoman, married to a German count and installed on his remote Pomeranian estate, spends her days determinedly making a garden out of neglected grounds, her husband's baffled objections, and her own sharp, funny, only half-obedient view of marriage, motherhood, and the "Man of Wrath" she loves regardless.
Elizabeth von Arnim published Elizabeth and Her German Garden anonymously in 1898, drawing closely on her own life on her husband's estate; its wit and its heroine's quietly unconventional independence made it an immediate bestseller, and "Elizabeth" became the name she wrote under for the rest of her career, including the later, equally popular The Enchanted April.
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1866–1941 · Modern
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) was born Mary Annette Beauchamp in Kirribilli, Australia, and raised mainly in England before marrying a Prussian count and moving to his estate in Pomerania — the setting for her first, anonymously published novel, Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), a wry, semi-autobiographical account of a young Englishwoman's life and garden there that became an immediate bestseller and gave her the pen name, "Elizabeth," she used for the rest of her career. She went on to write more than twenty novels, including the later The Enchanted April (1922), and was a cousin of Katherine Mansfield and, for a time, the companion of Bertrand Russell's brother. She died in the United States at seventy-four.
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