She was a cousin of Katherine Mansfield (whose full name was Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp).Įlizabeth von Arnim spent her old age in London, Switzerland, and on the French Riviera. 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. The Enchanted April : Annotated version edited by Marcus Edward BondĮlizabeth, 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. Fisher, Lady Caroline Dester, beauty, landscape, humor, English literature, adaptation.

The Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Arnim, novel, English women, Italian Riviera, personal growth, self-discovery, nature, Lotty Wilkins, Rose Arbuthnot, Mrs. The novel has been adapted into several films, plays, and musicals, and is considered a classic of English literature. 'The Enchanted April' is known for its vivid descriptions of the Italian countryside and its gentle humor. Over the course of their stay in Italy, they form unexpected bonds and learn to appreciate the beauty of the landscape and the simple pleasures of life. Fisher, and Lady Caroline Dester, are all strangers to one another at the beginning of the novel.

The four women, Lotty Wilkins, Rose Arbuthnot, Mrs. The novel explores themes of personal growth, self-discovery, and the transformative power of nature. The story follows four English women who rent a villa on the Italian Riviera in April in order to escape their dreary lives in rainy England. 'The Enchanted April' is a novel written by Elizabeth Von Arnim and first published in 1922.

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