Elizabeth von Arnim | The Pastor's Wife
Copyright: © Elizabeth von Arnim 1914
Ingeborg Bullivant, the put-upon daughter of the Bishop of Redchester, suddenly becomes possessed by the demon Rebellion and takes a week's tour to Lucerne. Constantly in the company of a ponderous German pastor, she is put into a quandary when he proposes marriage. Faces with her father's wrath on her retur, however, Ingeborg accepts her Herr Dremmel with simple relief.
But the role of a pastor's wife in East Prussia is not as Ingeborg had imagined, for she has merely exchanged one set of rules for another...
Von Arnim's accomplished and comic novel is based on her own first marriage and life in provincial Germany at the turn of the century.- Language: English
- Dimensions: 20 x 13 cm
- Pages: 490
- Cover: softcover
- Year: 2000