The Enchanted April

the 15th-century Castello Brown in Portofino, where von Arnim wrote the novel

The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, and was probably the most widely read of her novels (as an English and American best seller in 1923[1]).

Von Arnim wrote and set the book in the 15th century Castello Brown. Critic Terence de Vere White credited The Enchanted April with making the Italian resort of Portofino fashionable.[2]

  1. ^ "A Different Stripe". Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  2. ^ De Vere White, Terence in introduction to 'The Enchanted April', Virago: 1991