Elizabeth von Arnim
1866–1941
Biography
Elizabeth von Arnim was the name under which Mary Annette Beauchamp, an English novelist, wrote most of her books. She was born in Australia in 1866 and died in 1941. Her first marriage, to a German aristocrat, took her to Germany, and her earliest books are set there. Through that marriage and her second, to Frank Russell, she held countess's titles in turn.
She published anonymously, as plain Elizabeth, or once as Alice Cholmondeley, and her books have been catalogued under many combinations of her names. Her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, a name her friends and then her family came to use as well. She was a cousin of Katherine Mansfield, and after her first husband's death she had a three-year relationship with H. G. Wells.
The site holds The Enchanted April (1922), a novel about four women, each unhappy in her own life, who rent a medieval castle above the Italian coast at Portofino and find that the place changes them. It is among her best-known books and shows the light, observant wit that runs through her fiction.
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Books
The Enchanted April
by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British-Australian writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera and was probably the most widely read of her novels (as an English and American best seller in 1923).
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