Historical Fiction Arnim, Elizabeth von: The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen. v1, 15 May 2017

[AlexBell]

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 and 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.'

The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen was written around the time of her last pregnancy, and published in 1904. It has a complex plot in which Elizabeth meddles in her cousin's unhappy marriage.

The text source cannot be named because I have silently corrected typos. I have checked it against the 1904 Macmillan edition, curled quotation marks, and made changes to hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.

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