Description:
Elizabeth von Arnim's vivid, humorous, and subtly subversive Elizabeth and her German Garden is one of the great garden memoirs of all time. This handsome edition includes an afterword by Ulrich Baer and a biographical timeline.
Brief description: ELIZABETH VON ARNIM (1866-1941) was an Australian-born writer who spent her life in Great Britain and Europe, where she married a German count, raised five children, had a relationship with H. G. Wells, and published more than twenty enormously successful books. The cousin of Katherine Mansfield, von Arnim was a member of a literary circle that included Hugh Walpole, E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, and others.
Review Quotes:
"A witty tale about...finding liberation from a stifling world of elitism through gardening. It was a risky tale for its time, and still feels modern on both love and the garden."
-The Guardian
"The book was a wild success and by 1899 it had run through twenty-one editions."
-The Independent