The Pastors Wife, Elizabeth von Arnim
The Pastors Wife, Elizabeth von Arnim
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The Pastor's Wife

Author: Elizabeth von Arnim

Narrator: Richard Burnip

Unabridged: 14 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2025

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Women


Synopsis

Ingebor Bullivant, the put-upon daughter of the Bishop of Redchester, suddenly rebels 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. Faced with her father's wrath on her return, she accepts Herr Dremmel with simple relief. But as a pastor's wife in East Prussia, she finds she has merely exchanged one set of rules for another...

About Elizabeth Von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) was an English novelist born Mary Annette Beauchamp. With many works to her name, she is best known for The Enchanted April and her semi-autobiographical novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ on December 22, 2020

This is actually one of von Arnim’s darker works in my opinion. ‘Vera’ takes the cake on that front. But when you read passages like what is below…it made me apprehensive when I was reading stuff like this (Ingeborg, one of the main protagonists, during and after childbirth). • “And still later, when......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on February 08, 2017

I've never read such an apparently mild book that made me so wildly angry. Von Arnim is becoming a personal hero. (Longer review written at a greater distance included in my fall/winter roundup on my blog: [URL not allowed])......more

Goodreads review by Mighty Aphrodite on February 02, 2025

Quando si è vissuti per tanti anni in una prigione, una prigione forse dorata, fatta di qualche privilegio pagato, però, a caro prezzo, l’unico vero e animalesco istinto che riesce ad emergere dalla coltre della remissività è quello di sentirsi liberi, almeno per un momento, riempirsi i polmoni di u......more

Goodreads review by Xenja on October 30, 2020

Bello e acuto come tutti i romanzi della Von Arnim, questo è più di tutti gli altri un vero e proprio manifesto femminista; incredibile il coraggio con cui l'autrice scrive cose che ancora oggi sollevano furiose polemiche, come, per esempio, che il corpo della donna dovrebbe essere gestito solo dall......more