May Beauchamp (later EA
) and her father left London for an extended tour of Western Europe. While in Rome, she met her future husband, Graf Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin
.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth von Arnim
May Beauchamp (EA
) and Graf Henning von Arnim-Schlagenthin
were married at St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, London.
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politics
Elizabeth von Arnim
EA
's espousal of Fabian socialist beliefs incited further domestic disputes between herself and her husband
. By the time Wells published The New Machiavelli in 1910, EA
had fully adopted Fabian socialism. Meanwhile Henning...
Residence
Elizabeth von Arnim
EA
and her family moved from their Berlin apartment to her husband
's recently-returned family property, Nassenheide in remote Pomerania, a sixteenth-century house on a 60,000 acre estate.
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Textual Production
Elizabeth von Arnim
Her husband, Graf Henning von Arnim-Schlagenthin
, belonged to the Prussian Junker milieu, which condemned writing for money and did not believe women should publish. When she showed him the manuscript of this semi-autobiographical text...
Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth von Arnim
When EA
's husband
was arrested for embezzlement and imprisoned for six months, she was forced to support the household and pay the heavy legal fees needed to exonerate him of all charges.
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Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth von Arnim
Despite her husband
's wish to remain in Germany, EA
bought a house in England: Blue Hayes at Broadclyst near Exeter. She moved her children there while Henning arranged to sell their existing home, Nassenheide.
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