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Elizabeth Von Arnim

ELIZABETH VON ARNIM (1866-1941) was an Australian-born writer who spent her life in Great Britain and Europe, where she married a German count, raised five children, had a relationship with H. G. Wells, and published more than twenty enormously successful books. The cousin of Katherine Mansfield, von Arnim was a member of a literary circle that included Hugh Walpole, E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, and others.