Virago Modern Classics: Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Paperback)

from nmhale

A semi-fictional memoir of a young noble woman, renovating one of her husband's country houses and luxuriating in the gardens surrounding the home. The story is said to be a novel, but it's clear that the diary entries reflect the true thoughts and emotions of the author, Countess Elizabeth von A...

from ParadisePorch

I've been wanting to read von Arnim for some time and decided to start with this title, her 1898 debut, because it is the one that Crawley House's Mr. Molesley gave to Anna Smith when he tried to court her during Mr. Bates' first absence in early season 2 of Downton Abbey. Von Arnim was a young E...

from alexdaw

You know how particular books give you phrases for life? For example, Winnie the Pooh - "elevenses", "horrible heffalumps" or Animal Farm - "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" and so on. Well, this book has given me "The Man of Wrath". I shall be using this frequen...

from kevn57

A few interesting quotes from the book resolutions. —only those who break them make them; how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness, I do sincerely trust that the benediction that is always awaiting me in my garden ma...

from arkgirl1

Finished 'Elizabeth and her German garden' recently and found it delightful. It appears, from reading the introduction, to be autobiographical as it is the musings and thoughts of Elizabeth von Arnim about her garden over a year, with the odd bits of life interspersed! It is very witty and some o...