![]() the Count was drilling for agricultural purposes’. ![]() ‘ appeared to be surrounded by paddocks and shrubberies’ while ‘in the summer’, he notes, ‘some flowers – mainly pansies, tulips, roses. ![]() Forster, who lived at the von Arnim estate in 1905, working as a tutor to the family's children, wrote that there was in fact not much of a garden. Īlthough the book is semi-autobiographical, the novelist E.M. Von Arnim insisted that she must remain anonymous because she claimed her husband, the German aristocrat Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, whom she satirises in the book, would have found it unacceptable for his wife to write commercial fiction. It is noteworthy for originally being published without a named author. The book is the first in a series about the same character, "Elizabeth". The book earned over £10,000 in the first year of publication, with 11 reprints during 1898 by May 1899, it had been reprinted 21 times. ![]() It was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. ![]() The Von Arnim family manor in Nassenheide, Pomerania, where the story is set, c.1860Įlizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by the Australian-born writer Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898. ![]()
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