Lecture: Elizabeth Von Arnim's Invisible Garden

Elizabeth Von Arnim, author of The Enchanted April pens a green space of her own.

Join us on March 11, 2025, for a lecture in Italian at Il Palmerino Cultural Association. Landscapes and gardens recounted by the novelist will be reimagined through the eyes of noted landscape architect Maria Chiara Pozzana. 

Elizabeth Von Arnim (1866 – 1941) published her first book Elizabeth's Gerrman Garden in 1898, and it achieved immediate acclaim. A cousin to Katherine Mansfield, this Austrailian-born writer of English descent spent 18 years in Pomerania, following her marriage to German Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, the adoptive son of Cosima Wagner. Von Arnim's husband gave her permission to write, provided her real identity not be revealed. In addition to several initial successes, she produced 17 works in the 1920s and 1930s, of which The Enchanted April may be the most widely read.

This lecture, in Italian, is part of the project "Florentine Gardens: Early Women Ex-pats and Artists of Today" organised by Il Palmerino Cultural Association and Calliope Arts Foundation, in collaboration with The British Institute of Florence.

For more information or to register: associazione@palmerino.it