Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) was an Australian-born writer who spent her life in Great Britain and Europe. After her marriage to a German count and raising five children, she married the 2nd Earl Russell. The cousin of Katherine Mansfield, von Arnim was a member of a literary circle that included Hugh Walpole, E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and George Santayana. Von Arnim published more than twenty enormously successful books by the time of her death in 1941.