In the Mountains was initially published anonymously – suggesting, perhaps, that it’s more autobiographical than she could allow under her own name.
It taught me always to check the pocket editions sections, as it won’t always be Thackeray and Austen. In the Mountains is one of the harder E von A titles to find in an early edition – though print-on-demand options are there – but I was lucky enough to stumble across a copy in a little bookshop in Dunster. One of the things I wanted to do this year was read more of the unusual or rare books I’ve got, because it seems a shame that the excitement of finding them shouldn’t get the opportunity to be matched by the reading experience. It was Elizabeth von Arnim Reading Week a week or two ago, organised by some nice people on Facebook, and I took In The Mountains (1920) off the shelf.
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