They also reluctantly take on the waspish, elderly Mrs. They find some common ground in that both are struggling to make the best of unhappy marriages. Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies' club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April.
The novel follows four dissimilar women in the 1920s England who leave their rainy, grey environments to go on holiday in Italy. After their wedding the couple return home and Lucy really does begin to be troubled by what happened to Vera.Considered a high-water mark by the author, the story is an extraordinarily black vision of a young wife who gradually begins to understand that her husband will accept nothing less than total intellectual and emotional servitude. However, over their new-found bliss looms the spectre of Vera, Wemyss’s first wife who died in mysterious circumstances. Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss, both recovering from recent unhappiness, meet and quickly fall in love. Her writings are ascribed to Elizabeth von Arnim.She used the pseudonym Alice Cholmondeley for only one novel, Christine, published in 1917. 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. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield.
Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist.
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