The Countess from Kirribilli: The Mysterious and Free-Spirited Literary Sensation Who Beguiled the World Morgan Joyce A&U ANZ author
The Countess from Kirribilli: The Mysterious and Free-Spirited Literary Sensation Who Beguiled the World Morgan Joyce A&U ANZ author She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a…
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The Countess from Kirribilli: The Mysterious and Free-Spirited Literary Sensation Who Beguiled the World Morgan Joyce A&U ANZ author
She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and EuropeShe was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. 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 was a whirlwind.
It was the novels she wrote about that life that turned her into a literary sensation on both sides of the Atlantic 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.