Editing Elizabeth von Arnim (section)

===Reception===
[[File:Elizabeth von Arnim Monument in Buk.JPG|thumb|Elizabeth von Arnim Monument in [[Buk, Police County|Buk]], Poland]]
Arnim's 1921 novel ''Vera'', a dark tragi-comedy drawing on her disastrous marriage to Earl Russell, was her most critically acclaimed work, described by [[John Middleton Murry]] as "''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' by [[Jane Austen]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Erica |title=Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor |date=2013 |publisher=Pickering & Chatto |location=London |isbn=978-1-84893-338-5 |edition=1st}}</ref>

Her 1922 work, ''[[The Enchanted April]]'', inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, is perhaps the lightest and most ebullient of her novels. It has regularly been adapted for the stage and screen: as a Broadway play in 1925, a [[Enchanted April (1935 film)|1935 American feature film]], an [[Enchanted April (1992 film)|Academy Award-nominated feature film in 1992]] (starring [[Josie Lawrence]], [[Jim Broadbent]] and [[Joan Plowright]] among others), a Tony Award-nominated stage play in 2003, a musical play in 2010, and in 2015 a serial on [[BBC Radio 4]]. Terence de Vere White credits ''The Enchanted April'' with making the Italian resort of [[Portofino]] fashionable.<ref name="ReferenceB">Terence De Vere White, Introduction to ''The Enchanted April'', Virago: 1991 {{ISBN|978-0-86068-517-3}}</ref> It is also, probably, the most widely read of all her works, having been a Book-of-the-Month club choice in America upon publication.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

Her 1940 novel ''Mr. Skeffington'' was made into [[Mr. Skeffington|an Academy Award-nominated feature film]] by Warner Bros. in 1944, starring [[Bette Davis]] and [[Claude Rains]], and a 60-minute "[[Lux Radio Theater]]" broadcast radio adaptation of the movie on 1 October 1945.

Since 1983, the British publisher [[Virago Press|Virago]] has been reprinting her work with new introductions by modern writers, some of which claim her as a feminist.<ref>Elizabeth von Arnim, ''Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther'', Virago: 1983 {{ISBN|978-0-86068-317-9}}</ref> ''The Reader's Encyclopedia'' reports that many of her later novels are "tired exercises", but this opinion is not widely held.<ref>Bruce F. Murphy, ed., ''The Reader's Encyclopedia'', 5th ed., Collins: 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-06-089016-2}}</ref>

Perhaps the best example of Arnim's mordant wit and unusual attitude to life is provided in one of her letters: "I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather."<ref>Letter to Maud Ritchie, quoted by Deborah Kellaway in introduction to ''The Solitary Summer'', Virago: 1993 {{ISBN|1-85381-553-5}}</ref>