Elizabeth And Her German Garden (Virago Modern Classics)

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dichiaro solennemente che se mai i miei mobili mi infastidissero perché hanno bisogno di essere spolverati quando io voglio fare qualcos’altro, e non ci fosse nessuno che potesse togliere la polvere al posto mio, li butterei tutti quanti nel falò più vicino e me ne starei seduta con grande soddisfazione a scaldarmi le punte dei piedi alle fiamme,. Other than that, I was pleased with the lovely distraction from looking at the same walls of this same house day after day. Well, but think how much colder you would have been without all that fur you ate for lunch inside you,’ she said. And her quick explanation of the dejected gardener who walked around with a spade in one hand and a revolver in the other.

Her husband, whom she refers to as simply the “Man of Wrath”… well, you’ll have to decide for yourself what her intentions were with this irreverent nickname. Elizabeth consoles herself in her garden, celebrating her happy days (as opposed to her "reluctant nights" with her husband, the Man of Wrath). In this blog site review, there is a review of the book from The Lincoln, Nebraska Courier, August, 1900!Still in the context of a witty, humorous, and charming book this brough me up short and dimmed my mood temporarily. As usual in a number of places von Arnim had me chuckling such as in this passage in which Elizabeth and two women who are staying at her house for a while are having a picnic outside in the dead of winter and one of the visitors is freezing her butt off.

Although it supposedly read like a diary, for me it really didn't, as I've read other "diary" type books that really drew me in immediately. I admit one thing got on my nerves a bit – Elizabeth’s somewhat patronizing attitude towards those of a lower social class – namely her gardeners and her house servants. She prefers to spend as much of her day as possible outdoors in the garden, even on the coldest days of winter, and gets labeled as eccentric by her neighbors.She had three little children, whom she referred to as the April baby, the May baby and the June baby. I found the feminist musings tiresome, the insights into Prussian culture fascinating, but my favorite part will always be Elizabeth’s glorious garden in springtime. But in between the lines as well as through many expressions, the readers get a good insight into what Elizabeth's life was. Elizabeth von Arnim (1966-1941) came from a highly-educated, freewheeling English background and married a Prussian aristocrat when she was 25. Ed è così – ho sostenuto con l’Uomo della Collera, quando lui ha protestato per quello che chiamava il mio perder tempo di sopra.

Here she wanders through the family gardens, terrified lest a relative emerge to find her trespassing. She separated from Count von Arnim in 1908, and after his death two years later she built a house in Switzerland, marrying John Francis Stanley Russell in 1916.Elizabeth dislikes the indoors with its responsibilities, servants and other interruptions, and spends most of the time reading in her garden.