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The marriage ended in disaster, with Elizabeth escaping to the United States and the couple finally agreeing, in 1919, to get a divorce. Von Arnim wrote another 20 books, which were all published "By the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden".Ĭount von Arnim died in 1910, and in 1916 Elizabeth married John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, Bertrand Russell's elder brother. In 1898 she started her literary career by publishing Elizabeth and Her German Garden, a semi-autobiographical novel about a rural idyll published anonymously and, as it turned out to be highly successful, reprinted 21 times within the first year.

The children's tutors at Nassenheide included E. The couple had five children, four daughters and a son. They married in London but lived in Berlin and eventually moved to the countryside where, in Nassenheide, Pomerania, the von Arnims had their family estate. She had met von Arnim during an Italian tour with her father. She died in 1941 in Charleston, South Carolina.Įlizabeth, Countess Russell, was a British novelist and, through marriage, a member of the German nobility, known as Mary Annette Gräfin von Arnim.īorn Mary Annette Beauchamp in Sydney, Australia, she was raised in England and in 1891 married Count Henning August von Arnim, a Prussian aristocrat, and the great-great-great-grandson of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, and others. The cousin of Katherine Mansfield, von Arnim was a member of a literary circle that included Hugh Walpole, E. Wells, and published more than twenty enormously successful books.

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) was an Australian-born writer who spent her life in Great Britain and Europe, where she married a German count, raised five children, had an affair with H. This much-beloved book appeals to anyone who appreciates the sly charm of Downton Abbey and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. An immediate best seller upon its first publication, the story of unlikely female friendship, newfound empowerment, rekindled love, and unexpected romance has been adapted for stage and screen, including a 1991 Oscar-nominated film, and a Tony-nominated play in 2003. Elizabeth von Arnim’s ageless novel compellingly responds to the eternal question of how to achieve happiness in life. The Guardian Beguiling, witty, and gently comedic, The Enchanted April tells the tale of four very different women who escape dreary London for an Italian castle in Portofino, shortly after World War I. The Enchanted April Original Book by Elizabeth von Arnim “Elizabeth von Arnim’s most charming novel in every it casts a spell.”