The Bibliography

Ayer, Katherine, ‘Elizabeth von Arnim (Countess Mary Annette Beauchamp Russell)’, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 197: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: Second Series (Gale, 1999)

Brown, Erica, ‘Elizabeth von Arnim’, in The Literary Encyclopedia, <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=155> [accessed 7 July 2009]

Brown, Erica, Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013)

Cappuccio, Richard. “Strange Monsters: The Struggle for Women’s Validity as Artists in  the Writings of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, 86-98.

Chambers, Helen. “Elizabeth von Arnim’s Novel Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther — An Anti-Werther?” In Connections: Essays in Honour of Eda Sagarra on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday, edited by Peter Skrine, Rosemary E. Wallbank-Turner and Jonathan West, 55-60. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter Heinz Verlag, 1993.

Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine, review of Marianne Flassbeck’s Gauklerin der Literatur: Elizabeth von Arnim und der weibliche Humor (Rüsselsheim: Christel Göttert, 2003) [The Female Imposter of Literature: Elizabeth von Arnim and Female Humour], Zeitschrift F R Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 52.3, (2004), 303-4

Cooper, Anice Page. Authors and Others. 1927. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1927. Reprint 1970.

De Charms, Leslie, Elizabeth of the German Garden (London: Heinemann, 1958)

Drew, Elizabeth, The Modern Novel: Some Aspects of Contemporary Fiction (London: Jonathan Cape, 1926)

Fiehn, Charlotte. “‘Passionate, magnificent prose’: Tracing the Brontes in the Friendship and Writings of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, 132-146.

Galvin, Rachel Anne Maughan. “The Spinster in the Garden: Joy and Transcendence in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Father and Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.Women: A Cultural Review, 28:1-2 (2017): 72-85. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320069

Haines, Sheila, ‘“Angles Had Everywhere Taken the Place of Curves”: Elizabeth von Arnim and the German Garden’ Turn-of-the-Century-Women, 2 (1985): 36-41

Hausman, Bernice L., Journal of Medical Humanities: ‘Between Science and Nature: Interpreting Lactation Failure in Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Pastor’s Wife’, 20.2 (1999)

Hennegan, Alison, ‘In a Class of Her Own: Elizabeth von Arnim’, in Women Writers of the 1930s, ed. by Maroula Joannou (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), pp. 100-112.

Hennegan, Alison. “‘Not a Feminist, but …’: Elizabeth von Arnim and Female Resistance.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, 99-114.

Hollington Michael. “‘Elizabeth’ and Her Books.” Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 87 (1997): 43-52.

Holzer, Stefanie. “‘Zu jener Zeit hatten wir noch nichts gegen die Deutschen’: Über Elizabeth von Arnim.” Merkur 59, no. 5 (2005): 436-41.

Jakubowicz, Karina. “‘Ces femmes avec ces fleurs!‘: Flowers, Gender and Relationships in the word of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, 70-85.

Jüngling, Kirsten, and Brigitte Roßbeck. Elizabeth von Arnim. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1996.

Komm, Katrin. Das Kaiserreich in Zeitromanen von Hedwig Dohm und Elizabeth von Arnim. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 2004.

Lanning, George. “Elizabeth’s The Pastor’s Wife.” In Rediscoveries. Ed. David Madden, 209-32. New York: Crown Publishers, 1971.

Lawrence, Margaret, The School of Femininity: A Book For and About Women As They Are Interpreted Through Feminine Writers of Yesterday and Today (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1936; Folcroft Library Editions, 1976)

Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. London: Macmillan, 1946.

Moine, Fabienne. Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism?“ Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 76 (March 2013)

Maddison, Isobel. “Constructing the Maternal in the Writing of Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim.” All Granite, Fog and Female Fiction: Gender and Middlebrow Fiction. Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi, 2016.

Maddison, Isobel. “Cross-Currents: Elizabeth von Arnim, Max Beerbohm, and George Bernard Shaw.” Women: A Cultural Review, 28:1-2 (2017): 130-143. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320071

Maddison, Isobel. ‘The Curious Case of Christine: Elizabeth von Arnim’s War-time Text,’ First World War Studies. 3.2 (2012): 183-200

Maddison, Isobel. Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden. (Farnham: UK Ashgate, 2013)

Maddison, Isobel. “Introduction: Complementary Cousins.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019. pp. 1-10.

Maddison, Isobel. ‘The Curious Case of Christine: Elizabeth von Arnim’s War-time Text,’ First World War Studies. 3.2 (2012): 183-200

Maddison, Isobel. ‘Katherine Mansfield’s Writing Game and World War One,’ Katherine Mansfield and World War One, Vol 6 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 2014) pp. 42-55

Maddison, Isobel. ‘The Middlebrow and Popular’, Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 81-96.

Maddison, Isobel,  Juliane Römhild, and Jennifer Walker. “Reading Elizabeth von Arnim Today: An Overview.” Women: A Cultural Review. 28:1-2, (2017): 1-6. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320070

Maddison, Isobel. ‘A Second Flowering’, London Library Magazine, 2012, Issue 15, pp.14-16.

Mansfield, Katherine, Novels and Novelists, ed. by J Middleton Murray (London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1930)

Marshall, Ann Herndon. “Act Natural: Dubious Proposals in The Mill on the Floss, The Pastor’s Wife, Vera and Rebecca.” Women: A Cultural Review, 28:1-2 (2017): 115-129. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320072

Marshall, Ann Herndon. “Digging Out Characters: Elizabeth von Arnim in Virginia.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, 115-131.

Miller, Jane Eldridge. Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997)

O’Connell, Rachel.  “Love Scenes and Garden Plots: Form and Femininity in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Elizabeth and Her German Garden.” Women: A Cultural Review. 28:1-2, (2017): 22-39. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320073

O’Connor, Noreen. Narrative Symptoms: Cultural Trauma, Gender, and Modernism after the First World War. Ph.D. Dissertation, The George Washington University, 2007.

O’Connor, Noreen. “Writing Toward a New World: Awakenings in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss’ and Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019. pp. 54-69.

Phillips, Terry, ‘The Rules of War: Gothic Transgressions in First World War Fiction’, Gothic Studies, 2000, 2.2, pp. 232-244

Roemhild, Juliane, “Beauty’s Price: Femininity as an Aesthetic Commodity in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Novels.” Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 74 (Oct 2011): 123-140

Roemhild, Juliane, ‘“Betwixt and Between”: Reading von Arnim Writing Elizabeth’, Working Papers on the Web, 11 (July 2008) <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/middlebrow/index.html> [accessed 7 July 2009]

Roemhild, Juliane, Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim. “At her most radiant moment” (New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2014)

Römhild, Juliane. “‘So that my soul may have time to grow’: Joy and Happiness in Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Solitary Summer.” Women: A Cultural Review. 28:1-2 (2017): 86-100. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320074

Roemhild, Juliane, “Worms of the Same Family – Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim”, in Katherine Mansfield and Influence, eds. Melinda Harvey & Sarah Ailwood (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015).

Römhild, Juliane, “After Life. Expressions of Mourning in Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim”. Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, pp. 11-26. 

Schreibersdorf, Lisa. “Hyphens on the Home Front: Imagining American Culture through the German-American Hyphen, 1911-1919.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 2005.

Scott, Bonnie Kime. “Tracing Garden Networks: Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim.” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, 27-40.

Shepherd, Jennifer L. “The Art of Modern Living and the Making of English Middlebrow Culture at the Fin de Siècle: The Case of Elizabeth von Arnim.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alberta, 2005.

Shepherd, Jennifer. “Digging for England in Elizabeth’s German Garden: Imperial Romance and National Femininities in the Early Works of Elizabeth von Arnim.” Women: A Cultural Review. 28:1-2 (2017): 7-21. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320075

Shepherd, Jennifer, ‘Marketing Middlebrow Feminism: Elizabeth von Arnim, the New Woman, and the Fin-de-Siecle Book Market’, Philological Quarterly, 84:1 (2005): 105-131

Smith, Angela. “‘Our Own Little Grain of Truth.'” Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von ArnimEdited by Gerri Kimber and Isobel Maddison, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2019, 41-53.

Smith, Angela K., ed., Women’s writing of the First World War: An Anthology (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)

Stoneman, Patsy, Brontë Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996)

Swinnerton, Frank, Background with Chorus: A Footnote to Changes in English Literary Fashion Between 1901 and 1917 (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1956)

Swinnerton, Frank, Figures in the Foreground: Literary Reminiscences 1917-1940 (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1963)

Swinnerton, Frank, The Georgian Literary Scene 1910-1935, rev. edn (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1935; rev. 1969)

Tomkinson, Fiona.  “Elizabeth’s Pious Pilgrimage; or the Ghost in the Garden.” Women: A Cultural Review, 28:1-2 (2017): 101-114. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320076

Turner, Nick. “Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Pastor’s Wife: A Reassessment.” Women: A Cultural Review. 28:1-2 (2017), 56-71. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320077

Usborne, Karen, ‘Elizabeth’, The Author of Elizabeth and her German Garden (London: The Bodley Head, 1986)

Walker, Jennifer. Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey; a Biography of Elizabeth Von Arnim. (London: Book Guild, 2013)

Walker, Jennifer. “Elizabeth and Her Mountain Garden.” Women: A Cultural Review. 28:1-2 (2017) 40-55. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1320078

Walker, Jennifer. “Introduction to Katherine Mansfield’s Letters to Elizabeth von Arnim.” In The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letterrs of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1. Letters to Correspondents A – J. Edited by Claire Davison and Gerri Kimber. Editorial Assistant: Anna Plumridge. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Wells, H.G. H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography. Edited by G.P. Wells. London: Faber and Faber, 1984.


Letters by Henry James in which von Arnim is mentioned 

Henry James to Hugh Walpole. 19 May 1912. In Henry James: Letters. Edited by Leon Edel, 618-20. Vol. 4. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1984.

Henry James t o Hugh Walpole. 21 November 1914. Henry James: Letters. Edited by Leon Edel. Vol. 4, 727-31. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1984.


Letters by Katherine Mansfield in which von Arnim is mentioned (not complete) 

Katherine Mansfield to Elizabeth von Arnim. October 1922. In The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by John Middleton Murry, 410. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.

Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry. After 19 November 1922. In Letters between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry, edited by Cherry A. Hankin, 391. London: Virago, 1988.

Katherine Mansfield to Dorothy Brett. 1 October 1921. In The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by Vincent O’Sullivan. Vol. 4, 287. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996.


Letters by Virginia Woolf in which von Arnim is mentioned 

———. To Ethel Smyth. 21 September 1930. In The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. Vol. 4, 217-18. London: Hogarth Press, 1975.

———. To Ethel Smyth. 5 September 1930. In The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. Vol. 4, 209. London: Hogarth Press, 1978.

———. To Ethel Smyth. 27 February 1930. In The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. Vol. 4, 144-45. London: Hogarth Press, 1978.

———. To Violet Dickinson. May 1907. In The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. Vol. 1, 294-95. London: Hogarth Press, 1975.