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Elizabeth von Arnim
First published in Great Britain in 1898.
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Solitary Summer is a memoir about a quiet summer spent mostly alone in her garden by Elizabeth von Arnim.
Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 - 9 February 1941)…
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Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 - 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works…
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by the Australian-born writer Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898. It was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years…
Escape to the idyllic beauty of Italy with The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. Four women embark on a transformative journey to a
sun-drenched castle, seeking solace from their…
The Solitary Summer, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in…
Christine is a 1917 novel written by Elizabeth von Arnim using the pen-name Alice Cholmondeley. It is the only novel von Arnim wrote under that name. It is written in…
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim is a 1921 novel based on her disastrous second marriage, to Frank Russell. It is a frightening analysis of the naivety of a young woman…
The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, probably the most widely read…
Elizabeth von Arnim’s much-loved novel about four women sharing a castle in the Italian Riviera.
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Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss’s ‘sweet girl’, and to Lucy, Everard is the…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday.
By bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together - including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance - this book establishes shared preoccupations in…
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By bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance this book establishes shared preoccupations in ways that…
Dedicated to all who "appreciate wisteria and sunshine," The Enchanted April is Elizabeth Von Armin's dreamlike celebration of womanhood, friendship, and love.
Published in 1922 to critical acclaim, The Enchanted…
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A notice in The Times addressed to ‘Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine’ advertises a ‘small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for…
Elizabeth von Arnim's brilliant, irrepressible novella, tells the tale of four very different women who find themselves far away from the drizzle of London and instead in the warmth of…
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In this foreshadowing of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, a vulnerable young woman marries a wealthy widower who sweeps her off to an isolated mansion haunted by the memory of his…
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Isobel Maddison
Isobel Maddison examines Elizabeth von Arnim’s writing in its historical and intellectual contexts, establishing her early work as a significant contribution to British anti-invasion literature and her later writing to…
In 1901, the Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin decides to go on a walking tour of Rugen, Germany's largest island off the Pomeranian coast. None of her friends want to go with…
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen from Elizabeth Von Arnim. Australian-born British novelist (1866-1941).
Indoors are her duties. There, too, is the Man of Wrath, her upright Teutonic husband. But outdoors, she can escape her domestic routine to read books, play with her three…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird cherries, lilacs, hollyhocks and lilies crowding the…
Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, married a Prussian aristocrat to become Countess von Arnim. Elizabeth and her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical novel based on her life in…
These three, their patient nurse, myself, the gardener, and the gardener’s assistant, are the only people who ever go into my garden, but then neither are we ever out of…
Elizabeth von Arnim was born Mary Annette Beauchamp. Elizabeth and her German Garden, a semi-autobiographical novel based on her life in her beloved German country garden, was published anonymously under…
* ‘A triumph of comic invention’ PENELOPE MORTIMER * An astringent, self-deprecating human comedy
Elizabeth and her German Garden is the first book by Marie Annette Beauchamp-known all her life as Elizabeth . The semi-autobiographical book, anonymously published, under the name Elizabeth, was an…
*A witty and ecstatic tale of transforming a wilderness into a garden *By the author of The Enchanted April *Introduced by Elizabeth Jane Howard
