This biography delves into the character of the remarkable woman whose life story provided much of the material and inspiration for her fiction.īorn Mary Annette Beauchamp in Sydney, Australia, she was brought up in London. Known today as Elizabeth von Arnim, this author’s most famous novel now is probably The Enchanted April (1922), but modern readers will appreciate the lively approach and relevance of all her work. With their unique humour and brand of rebellious feminism, these won high critical praise and gained a wide readership across the world. Writing as ‘Elizabeth’, she immediately became a literary celebrity and went on to publish twenty more eagerly anticipated novels. Her first best-selling work of fiction, Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898), launched a long and distinguished writing career. Jennifer Walker’s recent biography of the author Elizabeth von Arnim (1866 – 1941) provides a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to this writer and her entertaining novels.
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