- Fiction, Germany in fiction, Gardening, Women gardeners
<p>Told in a series of diary entries, <i>Elizabeth and Her German Garden</i> recounts one year in the life of an Englishwoman determined to revitalize the neglected garden of their German estate.
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- Author
- Elizabeth von Arnim, Ulrich Baer
- First published
- 1899
- Pages
- 138
- Publisher
- Trieste Publishing, BiblioBazaar, Repressed Publishing
- Editions
- 145
- Language
- German, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780860684237
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Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Though known in early life as May, her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to friends and finally to family. Her writings are ascribed to Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pseudonym Al
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