Elisabeth von Heyking

Elisabeth von Heyking (10 December 1861 – 4 January 1925) was a German novelist, travel writer and diarist. She is known for her best-selling 1903 novel Briefe, die ihn nicht erreichten (Letters Which Never Reached Him) and her travel diaries, published posthumously in 1926.

Biography Elisabeth von Flemming was born in Karlsruhe in 1861, the daughter of the Prussian diplomat and Armgard von Arnim. Her maternal grandparents were the writers Bettina and Ludwig Achim von Arnim. In 1881, she married the economist ; It became a best-seller and was reprinted more than 40 times in its first year of publication. None of Heyking's subsequent books—Der Tag anderer (1905), Ille mihi (1912), Tschun (1914), Die Orgelpfeifen (1918), Liebe, Diplomatie und Holzhäuser (1919), Das vollkommene Glück (1920), and Weberin Schuld (1921)—were as popular as the first.

Heyking's husband and two sons died during World War I. She spent her later life in Crossen Palace and died of a stroke in 1925 while visiting a friend in Berlin.