(1907) In 1908 Arnim left Nassenheide to return to London. Other titles dealing with feminist protest and witty observations of life in provincial Germany to follow were The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight, (1905) Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther. A bitter-sweet memoir and companion to it was The Solitary Summer, (1899) and The Benefactress (1902) was also semi-autobiographical. (1898) It would be such a success as to be reprinted twenty times in it's first year. This was when she created her pen name `Elizabeth' and launched her career as a writer by anonymously publishing her semi-autobiographical, brooding yet satirical Elizabeth and her German Garden. Arnim’s husband had increasing debts and was eventually sent to prison for fraud. Their children's tutors included Hugh Walpole and friend of Arnim's nephew, E.M. They were now living on the vast and somewhat neglected von Arnim estate, Nassenheide, in Pomerania. Writing was the refuge for Arnim in her, what turned out to be, incompatible marriage. The Arnims moved to Berlin where they would have four daughters and one son. Arnim would later refer to her domineering husband as the 'Man of Wrath'.
Two years later they married in London at St. In 1889 she travelled abroad to Rome with her father when she met a German nobleman, Count Henning August von Arnim (1851–1910). The shy and blonde young May turned into a voracious reader and she took organ lessons from the Royal College of Music. The Arnim household was a happy one, though somewhat disrupted by their various household moves and so many children. Arnim attended the Blythwood House School in London, then Queen's College School in Horn Lane, Acton in 1881. In 1871 the Beauchamps left Australia to live in Switzerland for a time before settling in England.
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