Elizabeth and Her German Garden : Elizabeth Von Arnim's witty, subversive garden memoir

She left the drawing room behind and disappeared into her garden—and refused, quite pointedly, to apologize for it.In this sharp, funny memoir dressed up as a diary, Elizabeth Von Arnim retreats from Victorian domestic expectation into the wild, unruly beauty of her Pomeranian garden, and finds there something closer to freedom than she's ever known. Between the roses and the weeding come tart observations on marriage, motherhood, and the absurdity of a society that would rather she stay indoors. It's a book that looks like a gentle nature diary and reads like a quiet act of rebellion.Elizabeth and Her German Garden became an instant sensation on publication—anonymous, wickedly clever, and utterly of its own mind. Why does it still charm readers today? Because a woman insisting on a room, and a garden, of her own has never gone out of style.