The manor house was destroyed in a WWII British air raid on 6 January 1944. But, Forster adds, ‘there was nothing of a show’." Ĭount von Arnim sold the estate in 1910 due to financial problems. the Count was drilling for agricultural purposes’. ‘ appeared to be surrounded by paddocks and shrubberies’ while ‘in the summer’, he notes, ‘some flowers – mainly pansies, tulips, roses. Forster, who lived at the von Arnim estate in 1905, working as a tutor to the family's children, wrote that there was in fact not much of a garden. Īlthough the book is semi-autobiographical, the novelist E.M. Von Arnim insisted that she must remain anonymous because she claimed her husband, the German aristocrat Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, whom she satirises in the book, would have found it unacceptable for his wife to write commercial fiction. It is noteworthy for originally being published without a named author. The book is the first in a series about the same character, "Elizabeth". The book earned over £10,000 in the first year of publication, with 11 reprints during 1898 by May 1899, it had been reprinted 21 times. The Von Arnim family manor in Nassenheide, Pomerania, where the story is set, c.1860 ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN THE SOLITARY SUMMER Perfect reading for Downton Abbey fans Elizabeth von Armin has a genius for writing brilliant novels.
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