Elizabeth von Arnim: Audiobook The Solitary Summer, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Published in 1899, The Solitary Summer is a charming companion to von Arnim’s earlier novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden. As with its prequel, the novel is semi-autobiographical …

Elizabeth von Arnim: Audiobook Elizabeth and Her German Garden, written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Elizabeth von Arnim, who is best known for her later novel The Enchanted April, married a Prussian aristocrat and, with their five children, lived in Nassenheide, Pomerania.

Elizabeth von Arnim: Four very different women, all wanting to escape cold and dreary London for different reasons, come together to share a month’s holiday in an Italian medieval castle. There’s timid Lotty Wilkins, terrified of her domineering husband; sober and religiou