Элизабет фон Арним
Элизабет фон Арним Графиня Рассел | |
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Рожденный | Мэри Аннет Бошан 31 августа 1866 г. Киррибилли Пойнт, Австралия |
Died | 9 February 1941 Charleston, South Carolina, United States | (aged 74)
Resting place | Tylers Green, Bucks, England |
Pen name | Elizabeth |
Occupation | Writer |
Period | 1898–1936 |
Spouse | |
Children | 5 |
Relatives | Katherine Mansfield (cousin) |
Элизабет фон Арним (31 августа 1866 г. - 9 февраля 1941 года), родившаяся Мэри Аннет Бошамп , была английским писателем. Родившаяся в Австралии, она вышла замуж за немецкого аристократа, и ее самые ранние работы состоялись в Германии. Ее первый брак сделал свою графиню фон Арним-Шлагентин и ее вторую Элизабет Рассел, графиню Рассел . После смерти ее первого мужа у нее был трехлетний роман с писателем Х.Г. Уэллсом , а затем вышла замуж за Фрэнка Рассела , старшего брата Нобелевской премии -Уинера и философа Бертранда Рассела . Она была двоюродным братом писателя из Новой Зеландии Кэтрин Мэнсфилд . Несмотря на то, что она была известна в ранней жизни, как май, ее первая книга представила ее читателям как Элизабет, которую она в конечном итоге стала для друзей и, наконец, с семьей. Ее сочинения приписываются Элизабет фон Арним. [ 1 ] Она использовала псевдоним Алис Чолмондели только для одного романа, Кристина , опубликованного в 1917 году. [ 2 ]
Ранний период жизни
[ редактировать ]She was born at her family's home on Kirribilli Point in Sydney, Australia, to Henry Herron Beauchamp (1825–1907), a wealthy shipping merchant, and Elizabeth (nicknamed Louey) Weiss Lassetter (1836–1919). She was called May by her family. She had four brothers and a sister.[3] One of her cousins was the New Zealand-born Kathleen Beauchamp, who wrote under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. When she was three years old, the family moved to England, where they lived in London but also spent several years in Switzerland.[1][4]
Arnim was the first cousin of Mansfield's father, Harold Beauchamp, making her the first cousin once removed of Mansfield. Although Elizabeth was older by 22 years, she and Mansfield later corresponded, reviewed each other's works, and became close friends.[5] Mansfield, ill with tuberculosis, lived in the Montana region of Switzerland (now Crans-Montana) from May 1921 until January 1922, renting the Chalet des Sapins with her husband John Middleton Murry from June 1921. The house was only a "1/2 an hour's scramble away" from Arnim's Chalet Soleil at Randogne. Arnim visited her cousin often during this period.[5] They got on well, although Mansfield considered the much wealthier Arnim to be patronizing.[6] Mansfield satirized Arnim as the character Rosemary in a short story, "A Cup of Tea", which she wrote while in Switzerland.[5][7]
Arnim studied at the Royal College of Music, principally learning the organ.[8]
Personal life
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On 21 February 1891, Elizabeth married the widowed German aristocrat Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin (1851–1910) in London,[9] whom she had met on a tour of Italy with her father two years earlier.[2] He was the eldest son of the late Count Harry von Arnim, the former German Ambassador to France. At first they lived in Berlin, then in 1896 moved to what was then Nassenheide, Pomerania (now Rzędziny in Poland), where the Arnim family had a landed estate.[10] They had four daughters and a son, born between December 1891 and October 1901.[11] In 1899, Henning von Arnim was arrested and imprisoned for fraud but was later acquitted.[12]
At the time of the 1901 United Kingdom census, on 1 April 1901, Arnim was in England, staying with her uncle Henry Beauchamp at The Retreat, Bexley, without any of her children.[13] Her son Henning Bernd was born in London in October 1902.[14]
The children's tutors at Nassenheide included E. M. Forster, who worked there for several months in the spring and summer of 1905.[11] Forster wrote a short memoir of the months he spent there.[15] From April to July 1907 the writer Hugh Walpole was the children's tutor.[16]
In 1908, Elizabeth von Arnim moved to London with the children.[2] The couple did not consider this a formal separation, although the marriage had been unhappy, owing to the Count's affairs, and they had slept in separate bedrooms for some time. In 1910, financial problems meant the Nassenheide estate had to be sold. Later that year, Count von Arnim died in Bad Kissingen, with his wife and three of their daughters by his side.[3][17] In 1911, Elizabeth moved to Randogne, Switzerland, where she had the Chalet Soleil built, and entertained literary and society friends.[18] From 1910 until 1913, she was a mistress of the novelist H. G. Wells.[4]
In 1916, the Arnims' daughter Felicitas, who had been at boarding schools in Switzerland and Germany, died of pneumonia aged sixteen in Bremen. She had been unable to return to England because of travel and financial controls caused by the First World War.[19]
Second marriage and separation, house moves, and death
[edit]In January 1916, Arnim married Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, the elder brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. The marriage ended in acrimony, with the couple separating in 1919, although they never divorced.[20] She then went to the United States, where her daughters Liebet and Evi were living. In 1920 she returned to her home in Switzerland, using it as a base for frequent trips to other parts of Europe.[2] In the same year, she embarked on an affair with Alexander Stuart Frere (1892–1984), who later became chairman of the publishing house Heinemann. Frere, 26 years her junior, initially went to stay at the Chalet Soleil to catalogue her large library, and a romance ensued. The affair lasted several years. In 1933, Frere married the writer and theater critic Patricia Wallace,[21] and Arnim was the godmother of the couple's only daughter Elizabeth (later Elizabeth Frere Jones) who was named in her honour.[17]
In 1930, Arnim set up a home in Mougins in the south of France, seeking a warmer climate. She created a rose garden there and called the house Mas des Roses. She continued to entertain her social and literary circle there, as she had done in Switzerland. She kept this house to the end of her life, although she moved to the United States in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War.[2] She died of influenza at the Riverside Infirmary, Charleston, South Carolina, on 9 February 1941, aged 74, and was cremated at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Maryland. In 1947 her ashes were mingled with those of her brother, Sir Sydney Beauchamp, in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Tylers Green, Penn, Buckinghamshire.[4] The Latin inscription on her tombstone reads parva sed apta (small but apt), alluding to her short stature.[22]
Literary career
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Arnim launched her career as a writer with her satirical and semi-autobiographical Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898). Published anonymously, it chronicled the protagonist Elizabeth's struggles to create a garden on the family estate and her attempts to integrate into German aristocratic Junker society. In it, she fictionalized her husband as "The Man of Wrath". It was reprinted twenty times by May 1899, a year after its publication.[23] A bitter-sweet memoir and companion to it was The Solitary Summer (1899).
By 1900, Arnim's books had such success that the identity of "Elizabeth" caused newspaper speculation in London, New York and elsewhere.[24]
Other works, such as The Benefactress (1902), The Adventures of Elizabeth on Rügen (1904), Vera (1921), and Love (1925), were also semi-autobiographical. Some titles ensued that deal with protest against domineering Junkertum and witty observations of life in provincial Germany, including The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (1905) and Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther (1907). She would sign her twenty or so books, after the first, initially as "by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden" and later simply as "By Elizabeth".
In 1909, The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight was turned into a play called The Cottage in the Air, and in 1929 into the film The Runaway Princess, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Mady Christians.[25]
Although Arnim never wrote a conventional autobiography, All the Dogs of My Life (1936), an account of her love for her pets, contains many glimpses of her glittering social circle.[26]
Reception
[edit]Arnim's 1921 novel Vera, a dark tragi-comedy drawing on her disastrous marriage to Earl Russell, was her most critically acclaimed work, described by John Middleton Murry as "Wuthering Heights by Jane Austen".[27]
Her 1922 work, The Enchanted April, inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, is perhaps the lightest and most ebullient of her novels. It has regularly been adapted for the stage and screen: as a Broadway play in 1925, a 1935 American feature film, an Academy Award-nominated feature film in 1992 (starring Josie Lawrence, Jim Broadbent and Joan Plowright among others), a Tony Award-nominated stage play in 2003, a musical play in 2010, and in 2015 a serial on BBC Radio 4. Terence de Vere White credits The Enchanted April with making the Italian resort of Portofino fashionable.[28] It is also, probably, the most widely read of all her works, having been a Book-of-the-Month club choice in America upon publication.[28]
Her 1940 novel Mr. Skeffington was made into an Academy Award-nominated feature film by Warner Bros. in 1944, starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains, and a 60-minute "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast radio adaptation of the movie on 1 October 1945.
Since 1983, the British publisher Virago has been reprinting her work with new introductions by modern writers, some of which claim her as a feminist.[29] The Reader's Encyclopedia reports that many of her later novels are "tired exercises", but this opinion is not widely held.[30]
Perhaps the best example of Arnim's mordant wit and unusual attitude to life is provided in one of her letters: "I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather."[31]
Select bibliography
[edit]- Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) – online at Project Gutenberg
- The Solitary Summer (1899) – online at Project Gutenberg
- The April Baby's Book of Tunes (1900) (Illustrated by Kate Greenaway) – online at Project Gutenberg
- The Benefactress (1901) – online at Project Gutenberg
- The Ordeal of Elizabeth (1901; draft of a novel, published posthumously)
- The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen (1904) – online at Project Gutenberg
- Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (1905) – online at Project Gutenberg
- Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther (1907) – online at Project Gutenberg
- The Caravaners (1909) – online at Project Gutenberg
- The Pastor's Wife (1914) – online at Project Gutenberg
- Christine (1917) (written under the pseudonym Alice Cholmondeley) – online at Project Gutenberg
- Christopher and Columbus (1919) – online at Project Gutenberg
- In the Mountains (1920) – online at Project Gutenberg
- Vera (1921) – online at Project Gutenberg
- The Enchanted April (1922) – online at Project Gutenberg
- Love (1925)
- Introduction to Sally (1926)
- Expiation (1929) (Reprinted by Persephone Books in 2019)
- Father (1931)
- The Jasmine Farm (1934)
- All the Dogs of My Life (autobiography, 1936)
- Mr. Skeffington (1940) – online at Project Gutenberg Australia
Notes
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b Usborne 1986, p. [page needed]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Maddison, Isobel (2016) Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden. Abingdon: Routledge.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Arnim, Jasper von (2003) Elizabeth von Arnim, von-arnim.net. Retrieved 24 July 2020
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition (UK library card required): Arnim, Mary Annette [May] von. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Maddison 2013, pp. 85–91This source incorrectly states that Mansfield was in Switzerland until June 1922, but all Mansfield biographies state January 1922, after which she moved to France seeking treatment for TB. Mansfield and Murry later lived in a hotel in Randogne from June to August 1922. She died in France in January 1923, aged 34.
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, ed., et al. (1996) The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume Four: 1920–1921, pp. 249–250. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 20 July 2020 (Google Books)
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, (2001) The Montana Stories London: Persephone Books.
- ^ Isobel Maddison, Juliane Römhild, et al. (22 June 2017) "Reading Elizabeth von Arnim Today: An Overview", Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 28, 2017, Issue 1–2. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ Genealogische Handbuch des Adels., p. 30. Gotha: Justus Perthes Verlag, 1932.
- ^ Henning August Graf v. Arnim (1851–1910) In: Das Geschlecht von Arnim. IV. Teil: Chronik der Familie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Published by Arnim'scher Familienverband, Degener, 2002, p. 591.
- ^ Jump up to: a b R. Sully (2012) British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860–1914, p. 120, New York: Springer. Retrieved 20 July 2020 (Google Books).
- ^ Morgan, Joyce (2021). The Countess from Kirribilli. Australia: Allen & Unwin. pp. 50–51. ISBN 978-1-76087-517-6.
- ^ 1901 United Kingdom census, Park Hill, Bexley, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 13 July 2022 (subscription required)
- ^ "Henning Bernd Von Arnim-schlagenthin" in England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915: 1902; Registration Place: Strand, London, England; Volume 1b, page 606
- ^ E. M. Forster, (1920–1929) Nassenheide. The National Archives. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ Elizabeth Steele (1972), Hugh Walpole, p. 15, London: Twayne ISBN 0-8057-1560-6.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Römhild, Juliane (2014) Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim: At Her Most Radiant Moment, pp. 16–24. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-61147-704-7
- ^ "Elizabeth von Arnim – Biography and Works". online-literature.com. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ Juliane Roemhild, (30 May 1916) Elizabeth von Arnim Society. 2016 Centenary Note: Two Wartime Tragedies. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ Derham, Ruth (2021). Bertrand's Brother: The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell. Stroud: Amberley. pp. 257–283. ISBN 978-1-3981-0283-5.
- ^ Morgan, Joyce (2021). The Countess from Kirribilli. Australia: Allen & Unwin. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-76087-517-6.
- ^ Vickers, Salley, in the introduction to Elizabeth von Arnim, 'The Enchanted April' Penguin: 2012 ISBN 978-0-141-19182-9
- ^ Miranda Kiek (8 November 2011) "Elizabeth von Arnim: The forgotten feminist who’s flowering again", The Independent. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ Morgan, Joyce (2021). The Countess from Kirribilli. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. pp. 52–57. ISBN 978-1-76087-517-6.
- ^ Introduction, Elizabeth von Arnim, The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2016)
- ^ Elizabeth von Arnim, All the Dogs of My Life, Virago: 2006 ISBN 978-1-84408-277-3
- ^ Brown, Erica (2013). Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor (1st ed.). London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 978-1-84893-338-5.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Terence De Vere White, Introduction to The Enchanted April, Virago: 1991 ISBN 978-0-86068-517-3
- ^ Elizabeth von Arnim, Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther, Virago: 1983 ISBN 978-0-86068-317-9
- ^ Bruce F. Murphy, ed., The Reader's Encyclopedia, 5th ed., Collins: 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-089016-2
- ^ Letter to Maud Ritchie, quoted by Deborah Kellaway in introduction to The Solitary Summer, Virago: 1993 ISBN 1-85381-553-5
Sources
- Maddison, Isobel (Spring 2012). "A Second Flowering: Elizabeth and her German Garden" (PDF). London Library Magazine. No. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020 – via Katherine Mansfield Society.
- Maddison, Isobel (2013). "Worms of the same family: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield". Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-1167-3.
- Morgan, Joyce (2021). The Countess from Kirribilli. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-76087-517-6.
- Usborne, Karen (1986). "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. London: Bodley Head. ISBN 978-0-370-30887-6.
Further reading
[edit]- Лиза Бекаерт, анализ Элизабет фон Арнима «Благосостояние» П. Гилмана и « Герленда» Шарлотты в роли новой женщины Писания и Генри Р. Хаггарда « Она и Айеша» как мужская реплика. Мастерская диссертация, Университет Гента, 2009 ( [1] PDF; 378 КБ)
- Де Шармс, Лесли: Элизабет из немецкого сада: биография - Лондон: Хейнеманн, 1958 OCLC 848626
- Аманда Дрюис, "Элизабет фон Арним". В энциклопедии британских женщин Writies, ed. Пол Свертер и Джун Кекс. Нью -Джерси: издательство Rutgers University Press, 1998, стр. 13 фр.
- Ивона Эберле, Ева с лопатой: женщины, сады и литература в девятнадцатом веке . (Мастерская диссертация, Цюрихский университет, 2001). Мюнхен: Grin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-84355-8
- Кейт Браудер Хеберлейн, «Арним, Элизабет фон». Словарь британских женщин -писателей , изд. Джейн Тодд. Лондон: Routledge, 1998, № 12
- Алисия Хеннеган, «в собственном классе: Элизабет фон Арним», Женщины 1930 -х годов: пол, политика и история , изд. и введение Марулы Джоанну. Эдинбург: издательство Эдинбургского университета, 1999, с. 100–112
- Майкл Холлингтон, «Элизабет» и ее книги » Aumla 87 (май 1997), с. 43–51
- Кирстен Юнглинг и Бриджит Росбек, Элизабет фон Арним; Биография . Франкфурт: остров, 1996, ISBN 978-3-458-33540-5
- Isobel Maddison, «Элизабет фон Арним:« За пределами немецкого сада », Routledge, 2013
- Isobel Maddison, «Элизабет и Кэтрин» в Справочнике Блумсбери Кэтрин Мэнсфилд, экс -Тодд Мартин, Лондон: Блумсбери, 2020
- «Зачарованный апрель» Элизабет фон Арним (1922) под редакцией «Введение» Изобель Мэддисон, Оксфорд: Оксфордский мир Классика, 2022 - Первое научное издание
- Isobel Maddison, «Любопытный случай с Кристиной: текст военного времени Элизабет фон Арнима», « Исследования Первой мировой войны », том 3 (2) октябрь 2012 г., с. 183–200
- Эшли Олс, Ангел в саду: восстановление «Жена пастора» Элизабет фон Арнима , магистерская диссертация, Университет Восточной Каролины, 2012 ( [2] PDF; 378 KB)
- Джулиан Румхильд, Женщина и авторство в романах Элизабет фон Арним . Нью -Джерси: издательство Университета Фэрли Дикинсон, 2014
- Талия Шаффер, «Фон Арним [урожденный Бошам], Элизабет [Мэри Аннетт, графиня Рассел]». Кембриджский гид по женскому письму на английском языке , изд. Лорна Шайдж, Адес. ред. Germaine Greer et al. Кембридж: издательство Кембриджского университета, 1999, с. 646
- Джордж Уолш, «Леди Рассел, 74 года, известный романист, автор книги« Элизабет и ее немецкий сад »умирает в Чарльстоне, Южная Каролина, больница». Некролог в Нью -Йорке Таймс , 10 февраля 1941 года
- Кэти Элизабет Янг, больше, чем «глициния и солнечный свет»: сад как пространство самоанализ и идентичности в «Зачарованном апреле» Элизабет фон Арнима . Мастерская диссертация, Университет Бригама, 2011 ( PDF )
- Рут Дерхам, брат Бертрана: браки, мораль и проступки Фрэнка, 2 -го графа Рассела. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, ISBN 978-1-3981-0283-5
Другие биографии
[ редактировать ]- Джойс Морган, графиня из Киррибилли . Сидней: Аллен и Анвин, 2021 ISBN 9781760875176
- Кэри, Габриель (2020). Только счастье здесь: в поисках Элизабет фон Арним . Сент -Люсия, Qld.: Университет Квинсленда Пресс.
- Кэти Ройфе , Необычные аранжировки: семь портретов супружеской жизни в лондонских литературных кругах 1910–1939 . Нью -Йорк: Dial Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-385-33937-7
- Дженнифер Уокер, Элизабет немецкого сада - литературное путешествие . Брайтон: книжная гильдия, 2013 ISBN 978-1-84624-851-1
Внешние ссылки
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- Работы Элизабет фон Арним в форме электронных книг в стандартных электронных книгах
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- Работы Элизабет фон Арним в Librivox (Audiobooks Public Domain)
- «Статья об Элизабет фон Арниме на веб -сайте Gmina Dobra» . Архивировано с оригинала 10 июня 2016 года . Получено 15 октября 2015 года .
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