Elizabeth And Her German Garden

3.5 stars “… I don’t love things that will only bear the garden for three or four months in the year and require coaxing and petting for the rest of it. Give me a garden full of strong, healthy creatures, able to stand roughness and cold without dismally giving in and dying. I never could see that de......more

Elizabeth and her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical book written in 1898 by Elizabeth von Arnim (author of The Enchanted April) about her life and garden in the area of Nassenheide, Pomerania, where the family had their estate (her husband was minor nobility). Pomerania is an area in the nort......more

This is the fourth book I have read by Elizabeth von Arnim. This is the first book she wrote in her literary career (1898) and it was quite the literary hit, going quickly into multiple printings and being published in different languages. She was 32 at the time, 7 years into her marriage to a rich,......more

After enjoying Enchanted April so much I was suprised I didn't enjoy this one. I found Elizabeth unkind and shallow. Taking a baby owl from a nest was horrible. I know you have to view this through eyes of the time but I found her views of people from a class she saw as below her awful.......more

Che brutta cosa sono i pregiudizi ed io ne avevo tantissimi riguardo ad Elizabeth von Armin. Tutto ciò fino ad oggi. Chiudo il libro con una certa soddisfazione perché questa lettura è risultata essere veramente piacevole. Un diario che va da maggio ad aprile, e racconta il trasferimento in una residen......more