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...lady known as Elizabeth is now an old lady of 74. Born Mary Annette Beauchamp (pronounced Beecham), a cousin of the late Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Beauchamp), she was married first to a German nobleman, Count von Arnim, and in 1916 to the second Earl Russell, elder brother of Philosopher Bertrand Russell. After their separation a few years later, she lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold...
...Author. Nee Beauchamp, "Elizabeth's" present name is Elizabeth Mary Countess Russell. Her first husband was German Count von Arnim; her second, the late John Francis Stanley Earl Russell, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand (now Earl) Russell. Tiny, feminine, aristocratic. "Elizabeth" shrinks from publicity, has never written under her full name. Of her writing, reminiscent of well-bred but intelligent conversation, she says: "Like the Apostle Paul, I never think beforehand what I am to say." Other books: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Expiation, The Enchanted April...
...name was Bettina von Arnim-Brentano. She was the child of Maximiliana von Laroche, one of Goethe's many loves, and may have thought (thinks Rolland) that she was actually Goethe's daughter. Her own affair with Goethe was rapturous but platonic, except for some early scenes in which the poet behaved himself like Daddy Browning. When Bettina met Beethoven he was still unfamous but very conscious of his worth, and she wrote rhapsodically to Goethe about this unappreciated musical genius. When they finally met, however, Goethe thought Beethoven uncouth; Beethoven considered Goethe an anxious snob. When they...
...divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House of Lords, imprisoned for three months. Later he was pardoned and reinstated through the aid of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith. When his second wife divorced him he married Elizabeth Mary Countess Arnim, anonymous authoress (Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April...
...Elizabeth, Countess Russell and von Arnim, authoress of Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April, known to the public as "Elizabeth...