Description:
Based on von Arnim's disastrous marriage to the 2nd Earl Russell, this tale of a woman gaslit by her husband anticipates the plot of Rebecca, an Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock. With an afterword by Ulrich Baer.
Brief description: Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) was an Australian-born writer who spent her life in Great Britain and Europe. After her marriage to a German count and raising five children, she married the 2nd Earl Russell. The cousin of Katherine Mansfield, von Arnim was a member of a literary circle that included Hugh Walpole, E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and George Santayana. Von Arnim published more than twenty enormously successful books by the time of her death in 1941.
Review Quotes:
"Distinctly a triumph." -Rebecca West, New Statesman
"Extraordinarily good...I admired the end most." -Katherine Mansfield