
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
There were fourteen dogs and they make up the bulk of these stories lightly colored in with her biographical details. Some of her dogs evoke great affection, at least one not so much after he was neutered and lived only to eat and sleep and sadly end his days too soon. Her descriptions are mostly upbeat and witty as she traipses across Europe displaced by war and changing fortunes. One wants a straight forward biography of Elizabeth von Arnim. She's cagey about sticking to the dogs and teasing us with her own life changes. And, my goodness, according to GR, "After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H.G. Wells, then later married Earl Russell, elder brother of the Nobel prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield." But I enjoyed the book.
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