Other Fiction Arnim, Elizabeth von: The Pastor’s Wife, v.1, 26 November 2008.

[Patricia]

The Pastor’s Wife (1914)
By Elizabeth von Arnim [Mary Annette Beauchamp],Countess von Arnim, Countess Russell. (1866–1941)

An English Bishop’s daughter escapes from her monstrously selfish father by marrying a Lutheran clergyman and moving to Prussia. Can she find fulfilment as the Frau Pastor, or will the plot turn into “Madame Bovary”?
A wry, yet humorous look at married life and the search for freedom.

This came from scans at The Internet Archive. I have restored some censored passages and reformatted and corrected (extensively) the text against a paper copy.

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