An English wife chronicles a year of transforming a neglected estate in rural Germany into her private paradise, sparring wryly with an exasperated husband, eccentric visitors, and the crushing propriety of provincial society.
Books mentioned in Elizabeth and Her German Garden (2)
Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle: “with the second volume of Carlyle’s Frederick under my father’s arm”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: “Alice in Wonderland, after she had drunk the contents of the magic bottle, could not have grown smaller more suddenly than I grew younger the moment I passed through that magic door.”