Elizabeth von Arnim was born on 31 August 1866 in Australia. She was cousin to the writer Katherine Mansfield. In 1890 she married her first husband, Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, a Prussian aristocrat, with whom she had five children. Elizabeth and her German Garden, published anonymously in 1898, was a barely fictionalised account of Elizabeth s life and the creation of her garden at the family home of Nassenheide in Pomerania, where Hugh Walpole and E. M. Forster were tutors to her children. Its instant success was followed by many more novels, including Vera (1921) and The Enchanted April (1922), and another almost-autobiography, All the Dogs of My Life (1936). She separated from Count von Arnim in 1908, and after his death two years later she built a house in Switzerland, marrying John Francis Stanley Russell in 1916. This marriage also ended in separation in 1919 when Elizabeth moved to America, where she died on 9 February 1941, aged 74.
Biografie
Elizabeth von Arnim, geboren 1866 bei Sydney als Mary Anette Beauchamp, wuchs in England auf. Sie war eine Cousine von Katherine Mansfield. Sie heiratete den preußischen Grafen Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin und lebte in Berlin und auf dem Familiengut Nassenheide in Pommern. Ehen mit Herbert George Wells und Frank Russell folgten. Sie starb am 9. Februar 1941 in Charleston / South Carolina.
