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Title:
The countess from Kirribilli : the mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world
ISBN:
9781760875176
Publication Information:
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Physical Description:
352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing. Elizabeth von Arnim may have been born on the shores of Sydney Harbour, but it was in Victorian London that she discovered society and society discovered her. She made her Court debut before Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, was pursued by a Prussian count and married into the formal world of the European aristocracy. It was the novels she wrote about that life that turned her into a literary sensation on both sides of the Atlantic and had her likened to Jane Austen.
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