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Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, married a Prussian aristocrat to become Countess von Arnim by marriage. Elizabeth and her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical novel based on her life in her beloved German country garden. It was so popular that she was soon known as “Elizabeth”, even to her family. She went onto write twenty successful novels, and after being widowed, married Bertrand Russell’s elder brother to become Countess Russell.

Elizabeth is an abnormal young lady for her chance and place, Germany in the last nineteenth century. Her passionate quality, her bliss, and her comfort, when comfort is required, all originate from her garden, into which she pours her inattentiveness regardless of getting little consolation for this from the general population in her life. In spite of the fact that the book is totally centered around making a garden on a disregarded bequest, readers gets a reasonable photo of the social limitations on ladies around then, and of Elizabeth's marriage. She alludes to her husband as "the Man of Wrath" all through the book, and she calls her kids by the months when they were conceived, April, May, and June.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp / Elizabeth von Arnim. 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 Elizabeth about her experiences learning gardening and interacting with her friends. It includes commentary on the beauty of nature and on society, but is primarily humorous due to Elizabeth's frequent mistakes and her idiosyncratic outlook on life. She looked down upon the frivolous fashions of her time writing “I believe all needlework and dressmaking is of the devil, designed to keep women from study.” The book is the first in a series about the same character. It is noteworthy for being published without a named author.