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    Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
    Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
    Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
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    Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther

    By Elizabeth Von Arnim

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1983
    Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
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    Elizabeth Von Arnim

    Elizabeth von Arnim was born in Australia in 1866 and her family moved to England when she was young. Katherine Mansfield was her cousin and they exchanged letters and reviewed each other’s work. Von Arnim married twice and lived in Berlin, Poland, America, France and Switzerland, where she built a chalet to entertain her circle of literary friends, which included her lover, H. G. Wells. Von Arnim’s first novel, Elizabeth in Her German Garden, was semiautobiographical and a huge success on publication in 1898. The Enchanted April, published in 1922, is her most widely read novel and has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen. She died of influenza in 1941.

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    • 5/5
      Rose-Marie Schmidt lives with her poor step-mother and father in the university town of Jena in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. They are forced to take in lodgers to make ends meet, the latest of which was Roger Anstruther, an English student from a wealthy family, who spent a year with the Schmidt family to perfect his German, as he has views on a career at the Foreign Office. When the novel begins, Rose-Marie's first letter in this epistolary novel informs us, among other things, that Roger has asked her to marry her just before his departure to England. What follows is the one-sided correspondence of Rose-Marie's answers to Roger's letters. She is a brilliant young woman with perfect English, as her mother was and Englishwoman. Her father is a Goethe scholar, and she pours out her life philosophy and her reflections on daily life. Her passionate nature fills the pages of every letter, and she omits no details about how very humble her circumstances are, to make it very clear to her fiancé just what kind of wife he will be getting. The reader becomes immediately attached to her within the first couple of letters, but it seems Rogers has a roving nature, and within a month he has called off the engagement and gotten engaged instead to a very wealthy, much younger English young lady. Rose-Marie in the interim almost dies from a terrible illness, but within a few weeks, the correspondence picks up again, as it seems Roger has developed a strong wish to keep her as a pen-pall, and an unusual friendship develops. A fascinating character study and a subtle social commentary, I found here the Elizabeth von Arnim I so enjoyed in Elizabeth and Her German Garden, with her independent spirit shining through her observations on human nature. The ending was not as one would expect from a novel of that period, but somehow very satisfying.
    • 5/5
      25 Dec 2010 - LibraryThing Virago Group Secret Santa gift from ParmavioletThe letters of Rose-Marie Schmidt, from a small town in Germany, to ex-lodger Roger Anstruther, back in England having declared his love at the very last minute. Very vivid and lifelike, funny and poignant; her family and neighbours are drawn beautifully, as are the house she moves to and her relations with her servant. So far, so delightful, but the ending, heralded though it is by some acerbic comments and others' suspicions that she is a "liberated" woman, is both fresh and surprising.I think this is the only Von Armin I didn't already have, and is a valuable and worthwhile addition to my Virago collection.

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