Best Selling Books of Elizabeth von Arnim

by Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), was an Australian-born British writer, also wrote under the pen name “Alice Cholmondeley”. Her first novel, “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, it was her first success, as it was reprinted twenty times in its first year. Her 1922 novel was “The Enchanted April”, the best selling books in the United States in 1923, has been adapted five times as a Broadway play , an Academy Award-nominated feature film etc.. “Christine” and “Christopher and Columbus” were the best selling books in the United States in 1917 and 1919 respectively.

Best Selling Books of Elizabeth von Arnim, (with an active table of contents), includes:

Elizabeth and Her German Garden
The Enchanted April
Christine
Christopher and Columbus

822 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2012

About the author

Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H.G. Wells, then later married Earl Russell, elder brother of the Nobel prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Though known in early life as May, her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to friends and finally to family. Her writings are ascribed to Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pseudonym Alice Cholmondeley for only one novel, Christine, published in 1917.