The Solitary Summer (Esprios Classics)

Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 - 9 February 1941) born Mary Annette Beauchamp was an English novelist. Born in Australia she married a German aristocrat and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell Countess Russell. After her first husband's death she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells then later married Frank Russell elder brother of the Nobel prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Though known in early life as May her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth which she eventually became friends and finally to family. Her writings are ascribed to Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pseudonym Alice Cholmondeley for only one novel Christine published in 1917.