Rzędziny ()Maddison, Isobel; Römhild, Juliane, et al. (22 June 2017) Reading Elizabeth von Arnim Today: An Overview in Women: A Cultural Review, Volume 28, 2017 - Issue 1-2. Retrieved 18 July 2020 is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobra, within Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, close to the German border. It lies approximately north-west of Dobra, west of Police, and north-west of the regional capital Szczecin.
History From the 1890s until 1908, the village, then part of the German Empire and known as Nassenheide, was the home of Elizabeth von Arnim, an author born in Sydney, Australia and brought up in England; her experiences were encapsulated in her first semi-autobiographical novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898).Elizabeth and Her German Garden introduced by Elizabeth Jane Howard; Virago Modern Classics In spring and summer 1905, the English writer E.M. Forster lived at the von Arnim family estate, working as a tutor to the von Arnim children.Sully, R. (2012) British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860–1914, p.120. New York: Springer. Retrieved 20 July 2020 (Google Books) Forster wrote a short memoir of the months he spent there.E.M. Forster, (1920–1929) 'Nassenheide'. The National Archives. Retrieved 18 July 2020Maddison, Isobel (2012)'A Second Flowering' , p.5. Katherine Mansfield Society. Retrieved 18 July 2020 From April to July 1907, the writer Hugh Walpole was the children's tutor.Steele, Elizabeth (1972). Hugh Walpole, p. 15. London: Twayne. .
There is a memorial statue to Elizabeth von Arnim in the nearby village of Buk.
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