When World War II broke out she permanently took up residence in the United States, where she died in 1941, aged 74. 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. Near Fine.Elizabeth, 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. Spine is a little sunned, with a few other light marks to the wraps. Dust wrapper is edge worn with some chips and loss to the head and tail. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Light spots to the top, fore, and bottom edges. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Through her first marriage she was a Countess, and later married Frank Russell, who was the elder brother of the Nobel prize winning Bertrand Russell. She was the cousin of fellow author Katherine Mansfield, and had a three long affair with H. The uncommon first edition.In the original very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.?'Father' is an interesting fictional study on the concept of spinsterhood in the interwar era, following 33 year old Jennifer as her widowed father suddenly remarries and she takes the opportunity to flee to a secluded Rose Cottage and live by herself.By Elizabeth von Arnim, a noted author and aristocrat known for her prolific works. The uncommon first edition of a charming interwar novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, a lovely copy in the original very scarce dust wrapper.

Father by Elizabeth von Arnim