Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and her German Garden
Title Elizabeth and her German Garden PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth von Arnim
Publisher Lindhardt og Ringhof
Pages 98
Release 2021-02-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 8726552884

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Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" was first published in 1898. It was instantly popular and has gone through numerous reprints ever since. This story is the main character Elizabeth’s diary, where she relates stories from her life, as she learns to tend to her garden. Whilst the novel has a strongly autobiographical tone, it is also very humorous and satirical, due to Elizabeth’s frequent mistakes and her idiosyncratic outlook on life. She comments on the beauty of nature and shares her view on society, looking down on the frivolous fashions of her time and writing "I believe all needlework and dressmaking is of the devil, designed to keep women from study." The book is the first in a series about the same character. Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941), née Mary Annette Beauchamp, was a British novelist. Born in Australia, her family returned to England when she was three years old; and she was Katherine Mansfield’s cousin. She was first married to a Prussian aristocrat, the Graf von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and later to the philosopher Bertrand Russel’s older brother, Frank, whom she left a year later. She then had an affair with the publisher Alexander Reeves, a man thirty years her junior, and with H.G. Wells. Von Arnim moved a lot, living alternatively in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, before dying of influenza in South Carolina during the Second War. Elizabeth von Arnim was an active member of the European literary scene, and entertained many of her contemporaries in her Chalet Soleil in Switzerland. She even hired E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole as tutors for her five children. She is famous for her half-autobiographical, satirical novel "Elizabeth and her German Garden" (1898), as well as for "Vera" (1921), and "The Enchanted April" (1922).

Expiation

Expiation
Title Expiation PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher
Pages 362
Release 2019-10-24
Genre
ISBN 9781910263235

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Vera

Vera
Title Vera PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher
Pages 338
Release 1921
Genre
ISBN

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Enchanted April

Enchanted April
Title Enchanted April PDF eBook
Author Matthew Barber
Publisher Samuel French, Inc.
Pages 76
Release 2003
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780822219750

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THE STORY: When two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two very different English women to share the cost and the experience. There, among the wisteria blossoms a

The Benefactress

The Benefactress
Title The Benefactress PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher
Pages 292
Release 1902
Genre
ISBN

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The Solitary Summer

The Solitary Summer
Title The Solitary Summer PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher Cosimo, Inc.
Pages 93
Release 2007-10-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1596059427

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Hailed as "one of the three finest wits of her day," the Countess Elizabeth von Arnim cemented her literary reputation with this companion work to her extraordinarily popular first novel, the semi-autobiographical Elizabeth and Her German Garden (also available from Cosimo Classics). First published in 1899, this is a proto-feminist account of one woman's attempt to carve out of a space of her own-away from the husband she only half jokingly refers to as her "Man of Wrath"-in the rambling gardens of the family's county estate. By turns bitingly satirical and achingly lovely, this will delight fans of von Armin's friends and fellow writers E.M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield. British novelist ELIZABETH VON ARNIM (1866-1941) is also the author of Enchanted April.

Only Happiness Here

Only Happiness Here
Title Only Happiness Here PDF eBook
Author Gabrielle Carey
Publisher Univ. of Queensland Press
Pages 219
Release 2020-09-29
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0702264482

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&‘When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who wrote about being happy.' Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the early twentieth century's most famous &– and almost forgotten &– authors. She was ahead of her time in her understanding of women and their often thwarted pursuit of happiness. Born in Sydney in the mid-1800s, she went on to write many internationally bestselling novels, marry a Prussian Count and then an English Lord, develop close friendships with H.G. Wells and E.M. Forster, and raise five children. Intrigued by von Arnim's extraordinary life, Gabrielle Carey sets off on a literary and philosophical journey to learn about this bold and witty author. More than a biography, Only Happiness Here is also a personal investigation into our perennial obsession with finding joy.