Showing posts with label Enchanted April. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enchanted April. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2011

Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

The ENCHANTED APRIL: THE ENCHANTED APRILYesterday, on Austen Authors, Cindy Jones, author of My Jane Austen Summer, asked her fellow authors to share where they would like to vacation if they could be dropped into one of their favorite novels. I immediately thought of Elizabeth Von Arnim's The Enchanted April. The setting, post World War I England, is a sad place. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of men who died in the war, there are even a greater number of men who returned home wounded in mind and body. War widows and those who have lost fathers, brothers, and friends walk about in the dreary colors of mourning.