Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) was a novelist born Mary Annette Beauchamp in Sydney, Australia, and raised in England; she was a cousin of the writer Katherine Mansfield. In 1891 she married the Prussian Count Henning von Arnim and went to live on his estate in Pomerania, which inspired her first book, Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898). Published anonymously, it was a great success, and for years her books appeared as “by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden”. After her husband’s death she moved between England and Switzerland, had a relationship with H. G. Wells, and in 1916 married Frank Russell, the elder brother of Bertrand Russell, a marriage that soon failed. Her witty, observant novels include The Enchanted April (1922) and Mr. Skeffington (1940). She died in South Carolina in 1941.
