Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898)
by Elizabeth von Arnim
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The author describes the garden she created in her Pomeranian wilderness and, with tongue in cheek, her Man of Wrath. Her Teutonic husband is as often confounded by her as her gardener is for her 'wild and natural plantings'.
"May 7th--There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having due regard for the decencies..." Elizabeth's wit and wry style records the seasons of her belo...more
"May 7th--There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having due regard for the decencies..." Elizabeth's wit and wry style records the seasons of her belo...more
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Read in January, 2002
I do not read a lot of non-fiction, perhaps I have post-graduate-school-shock? In any case, this is one which did not feel like homework. It did envoke in me a short lived interest in pure bred dogs, from which I have since recovered fully, and a longing for a small garden house of my own to escape to, which lingers still.
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