I'm so embarassed. I thought I'd uploaded the ePub version on the same day I uploaded the Kindle version, but must have forgotten.
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 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.'
Vera was written after she left Earl Russell, and the male character was widely believed to be a caricature of him. The main female characters are the second wife of this character, and her aunt.
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