Christopher and Columbusby Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 500 |
| Year of Publication: | 1920 |
| Date Read: | 08/17/1999 |
| Notes: | Orphans Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas, 17-year-old twins are sent to America by their English uncle during WWI. He doesn’t want them around because they’re half German. They’re befriended by Mr. Twist who tries all sorts of things to get them settled down somewhere without much success. COMMENTS — Mary Annette Beauchamp was born in Sydney, Australia, but raised in England. She met her first husband, Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, while traveling with her father in Italy in 1889. They married in London the following year. After five years, the von Arnims moved to a Nassenheide, family estate in Pomerania 90 miles north of Berlin. This schloss and derelict garden is the basis for her first novel, Elizabeth and Her German Garden published anonymously in 1898. Twenty-one books followed and were signed "By the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden" and later simply "By Elizabeth". Elizabeth published her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life in 1936. |
| My Rating: | 8 |