Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 - 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an Australian born British novelist. By marriage she became Grafin (Countess) von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and by a second marriage, Countess Russell.

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...revive; unhappy people find grace. Adapted by Matthew Barber from an early-20th-century romantic novel by Elizabeth von Arnim (which was made into a popular 1992 movie), the play has the weaknesses of that genre: predictability,...

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...Snow, Pets and Females, and The Bays by Tove Jansson, BBC Radio 4, (2006) Elizabeth and her German Garden, by Elizabeth von Arnim, BBC Radio 4, (2006) Poetry Please, reading various poems by Percy Bysshe, Mary Shelley, John...

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Written by Elizabeth von Arnim and presented under her anonymous pen-name Alice Cholmondeley, Christine is presented as a compilation of letters from a "gifted young English girl studying in Germany just before the outbreak of the war"...

In this article: Christine, NY Times, World War I, Berlin, Germany, Logos, and London

...opening next week, and working as their part-time marketing director. "Enchanted April" is based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, which later inspired a play by Matthew Barber, a 1992 film and a 2003 Broadway production staring...

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...often despite our efforts to resist the influences of other cultures and climes. In Matthew Barber's creative adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's 1922 best-selling novel, "Enchanted April," it is the sights and smells of the Tuscan countryside...

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...ex-doctor. "It is, I suppose, the most civilised country in the world," she tells her cousin Elizabeth von Arnim, whose novel, The Enchanted April, she informs her father, "is tame and even tiresome. I think she works her jokes about...

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...of the cases here don't seem to quite fit the premise of the book a it's hard to see what the "uncommon arrangement" between Elizabeth von Arnim and her second husband, Earl Russell, was exactly. Russell was a bully who dominated von Arnim in...

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Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898 ; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written by the protagonist...

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...English women coping with personal loss in the despairing aftermath of World War I, based on a 1922 English novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. The adventurous women escape rainy London to spend April in a rented castle in sunny Italy.

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