Happy 150th Birthday Elizabeth!

George Martens, "Sydney Harbour from Point Piper, 1866"
George Martens, “Sydney Harbour from Point Piper, 1866”

Mary Annette Beauchamp, known to us today as the writer ‘Elizabeth’ von Arnim, was born in Sydney, Australia on 31 August 1866. Elizabeth’s biographer Jennifer Walker tells us that the exact location of her birth is uncertain, but “we can safely assume that at the time her family was living in a prestigious home on Kirribilli Point, Sydney.” Happy 150th Birthday, Elizabeth!

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