Elizabeth And Her German Garden (Virago Modern Classics)

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The book has so many marvelous quotes that I would have made countless notes in the margins if I hadn't been reading a library book. From what I remember von Arnim did not actually have the garden she describes in this delightful book — it is written in the form of a diary with the first entry being May 7 (springtime and how much she looks forward to the blossoming of flora) and the last entry being April 18 almost a year later. I absolutely loved 'Enchanted April', so perhaps my expectations of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden' were too high? Kreuzzeitung = The Neue Preußische Zeitung ("New Prussian Newspaper"), a German newspaper printed in Berlin from 1848–1939. Her deep friendship with her younger cousin Katherine Mansfield is highlighted, and her escape from a disastrous second marriage to Lord Francis Russell (older brother of Bertrand) described.

Römhild, Juliane (2014) Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim: At Her Most Radiant Moment, p.

It is nice being the only person who ever goes there or shows it to anybody, but if more people went, perhaps the mosquitoes would be less lean, and hungry, and pleased to see us.

Count von Arnim died in 1910, and in 1916 Elizabeth married John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, Bertrand Russell's elder brother. I'm afraid I was too mean to send mine to France and I wasn't sure it would make the journey as it is so old - so I have bought this new copy and plan to send it to her immediately. The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible.Sadly, I don't have a housekeeper, handmaiden, workmen, painters, a gardener and his assistant, a cook, maids, nurse and someone to brush my hair in the evening but my garden is still a far-away corner in my kingdom of heaven.