She spent the next two decades in various parts of Europe, until she moved to America and lived there for the last couple years of her life, dying in 1941.Īs I said, this reads like a memoir. A disastrous second marriage (to Bertrand Russell's brother Francis) ended in separation, as she fled to America in 1919. Elizabeth moved to a chateau in Switzerland, had an affair with H. From then on, her many books were billed as "by the author of Elizabeth of Her German Garden," or just "by Elizabeth." However, debts forced her and her husband to sell the estate memorialized in the novel and move to England, and then the husband died in 1910. She published it, anonymously, in 1898 and it turned out a huge best-seller. This is actually her first book, which reads as a memoir but is really a novel I think. Elizabeth and her German Garden, by Elizabeth von ArnimĮlizabeth von Arnim is most famous as the author of The Enchanted April, a novel I am very fond of.
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