Arnim, Elizabeth von: The Pastor's Wife. v1 23 June 2017
 

Mary Annette Beachamp was born in 1866, in Australia, to an English father and an Australian mother. She was taken by her parents to England when she was three, and spent the rest of her life in England, Germany, other parts of Europe, and the USA where she died in 1941. She married Count Henning von Arnim-Schlagenthin in 1890, and had four daughters and one son with him. They separated in 1908, and he died in 1910. She married Lord Francis Russell in 1916, but left him in 1919.

Until the 1980s her twenty or so books (except Christine) were attributed to 'The Author of Elizabeth and her German Garden' or to 'Elizabeth'. She was eventually known to her family and friends as 'Elizabeth', and signed her personal letters as 'e.'

The Pastor's Wife was published in 1914, and has 37 chapters divided into three parts. They tell of her dealings with her father the Anglican bishop, her husband the Lutheran pastor, and an artist her would-be lover.

The text was taken from www.online-literature.com, and checked against the 1914 Doubleday, Page & Company edition from the Internet Archive. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.