




Gardeners love a story about the creation of a He did occasionally objected to his wife spending all her money on Indulgent quiet retiring man, in the early days of her marriage, even if There is no evidence that he was other than an She married in 1891 in London and thus becameĬountess yon Arnim her husband being Graf Henning August yonĪrmin-Schlagenthin a widower and referred to in her book as 'her Its conventions especially those of Germany.Įlizabeth met her future German husband in Rome where she was Independent character and disliked the restrictions of high society and There she must have absorbed some AustralianĬharacteristics including a love of gardening. Use that name) spent her early childhood in Sydney in the first half of That is her Australian connection because Elizabeth (I will She never used her real name and even her friendsĬalled her Elizabeth although her real Christian names were MaryĪnnette. Her first bookĮlizabeth and Her German Garden, in English was a runaway best sellerĪnd after that success all of her books were by 'Elizabeth and Her It was not considered proper for a Countess to write and publish booksĪnd German society certainly would not have approved. Stately house called Nassenheilde on an estate in Pomerania close to theīaltic Sea in the eastern part of Germany. Married a German aristocrat and wrote her first book while living in a She was an Australian and was brought up in Sydney where she Seen some years ago a film called The Enchanted April which was based onĪ novel by 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden' a pseudonym forĪn author who wrote in the late nineteenth century and in Edwardian Who was 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden' and what was soĮnchanting about her garden? By way of explanation some of you may have APA style: The enchanted garden: Elizabeth and her German garden.The enchanted garden: Elizabeth and her German garden." Retrieved from MLA style: "The enchanted garden: Elizabeth and her German garden." The Free Library.
