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About Christine
Christine is an epistolary novel published by Elizabeth von Arnim in 1917 in the guise of "Alice Cholmondeley". It is the only novel Arnim wrote under that name. Initially marketed as non-fiction, it is made up of letters supposedly written by Christine Cholmondeley, an English girl studying in Germany, to her mother Alice. It covers the period from May to August 1914 and depicts the mood in Germany leading up to World War I. As war looms, Christine attempts to rejoin her mother, fleeing towards neutral Switzerland, but dies of pneumonia in Stuttgart before they can be reunited.
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