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The Enchanted April - Vintage Deco

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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth von Arnim was born on 31 August 1866 in Australia. She was cousin to the writer Katherine Mansfield. In 1890 she married her first husband, Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, a Prussian aristocrat, with whom she had five children. Elizabeth and her German Garden , published anonymously in 1898, was a barely fictionalised account of Elizabeth’s life and the creation of her garden at the family home of Nassenheide in Pomerania, where Hugh Walpole and E. M. Forster were tutors to her children. Its instant success was followed by many more novels, including Vera (1921) and The Enchanted April (1922), and another almost-autobiography, All the Dogs of My Life (1936). She separated from Count von Arnim in 1908, and after his death two years later she built a house in Switzerland, marrying John Francis Stanley Russell in 1916. This marriage also ended in separation in 1919 when Elizabeth moved to America, where she died on 9 February 1941, aged 74. Klappentext 'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy' Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects. VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. Zusammenfassung 'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy' Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects. VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. ...

Product details

Authors Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 06.10.2022
 
EAN 9781784878054
ISBN 978-1-78487-805-4
No. of pages 261
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
Series Vintage Deco
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

England, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Holidays, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Italy, c 1920 to c 1929, Mediterranean countries, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Seasonal interest: Spring

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