Editing Elizabeth von Arnim (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Rittergut Nassenheide Sammlung Duncker.jpg|thumb|The von Arnim-Schlagenthin family manor in Nassenheide, Pomerania, (now [[Rzędziny]]), {{Circa|1860}}]]
On 21 February 1891, Elizabeth married the widowed German aristocrat Count {{Interlanguage link|Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin|de}} (1851–1910) in London,<ref>''Genealogische Handbuch des Adels.'', p. 30. Gotha: Justus Perthes Verlag, 1932.</ref> whom she had met on a tour of Italy with her father two years earlier.<ref name=BGG>Maddison, Isobel (2016) ''Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden''. Abingdon: Routledge.</ref> He was the eldest son of the late Count [[Harry von Arnim]], the former [[German Ambassador to France]]. At first they lived in Berlin, then in 1896 moved to what was then Nassenheide, [[Pomerania]] (now [[Rzędziny]] in Poland), where the Arnim family had a landed estate.<ref>''Henning August Graf v. Arnim (1851–1910)'' In: ''Das Geschlecht von Arnim. IV. Teil: Chronik der Familie im 19. und 20.&nbsp;Jahrhundert''. Published by Arnim'scher Familienverband, Degener, 2002, p. 591.</ref> They had four daughters and a son, born between December 1891 and October 1901.<ref name=Sully/> In 1899, Henning von Arnim was arrested and imprisoned for fraud but was later acquitted.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Morgan|first=Joyce|title=The Countess from Kirribilli|publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2021|isbn=978-1-76087-517-6|location=Australia|pages=50–51}}</ref>

At the time of the [[1901 United Kingdom census]], on 1 April 1901, Arnim was in England, staying with her uncle Henry Beauchamp at The Retreat, [[Bexley]], without any of her children.<ref>[[1901 United Kingdom census]], [https://mediasvc.ancestry.co.uk/v2/image/namespaces/7814/media/KENRG13_694_695-0465.jpg Park Hill, Bexley], ancestry.co.uk, accessed 13 July 2022 {{subscription required}}</ref> Her son Henning Bernd was born in London in October 1902.<ref>"Henning Bernd Von Arnim-schlagenthin" in ''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915'': 1902; Registration Place: Strand, London, England; Volume 1b, page 606</ref>

The children's tutors at Nassenheide included [[E. M. Forster]], who worked there for several months in the spring and summer of 1905.<ref name=Sully>R. Sully (2012) [https://books.google.com/books?id=3F5ED-XhzjwC&pg=PA120 ''British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860–1914''], p. 120, New York: Springer. Retrieved 20 July 2020 (Google Books).</ref> Forster wrote a short memoir of the months he spent there.<ref>[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4deb90eb-7c06-4548-992a-27a94c7dac2e E. M. Forster, (1920–1929) ''Nassenheide'']. [[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]]. Retrieved 18 July 2020.</ref> From April to July 1907 the writer [[Hugh Walpole]] was the children's tutor.<ref>Elizabeth Steele (1972), ''Hugh Walpole'', p. 15, London: Twayne {{ISBN|0-8057-1560-6}}.</ref>

In 1908, Elizabeth von Arnim moved to London with the children.<ref name=BGG/> The couple did not consider this a formal separation, although the marriage had been unhappy, owing to the Count's affairs, and they had slept in separate bedrooms for some time. In 1910, financial problems meant the Nassenheide estate had to be sold. Later that year, Count von Arnim died in [[Bad Kissingen]], with his wife and three of their daughters by his side.<ref name=jasper/><ref name=romhild>Römhild, Juliane (2014) ''Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim: At Her Most Radiant Moment'', pp. 16–24. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. {{ISBN|978-1-61147-704-7}}</ref> In 1911, Elizabeth moved to Randogne, Switzerland, where she had the Chalet Soleil built, and entertained literary and society friends.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth-arnim/ |title=Elizabeth von Arnim – Biography and Works |publisher=online-literature.com |access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref> From 1910 until 1913, she was a mistress of the novelist [[H. G. Wells]].<ref name=ODNB/>

In 1916, the Arnims' daughter Felicitas, who had been at boarding schools in Switzerland and Germany, died of [[pneumonia]] aged sixteen in [[Bremen]]. She had been unable to return to England because of travel and financial controls caused by the [[World War I|First World War]].<ref name=romhild2>Juliane Roemhild, (30 May 1916) [https://elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/uncategorized/2016-centenary-note-two-wartime-tragedies/ Elizabeth von Arnim Society. 2016 Centenary Note: Two Wartime Tragedies]. Retrieved 23 July 2020.</ref>

===Second marriage and separation, house moves, and death===
In January 1916, Arnim married [[Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell]], the elder brother of the philosopher [[Bertrand Russell]]. The marriage ended in acrimony, with the couple separating in 1919, although they never divorced.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Derham |first=Ruth |title=Bertrand's Brother: The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell |publisher=Amberley |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-3981-0283-5 |location=Stroud |pages=257–283}}</ref> She then went to the United States, where her daughters Liebet and Evi were living. In 1920 she returned to her home in Switzerland, using it as a base for frequent trips to other parts of Europe.<ref name=BGG/> In the same year, she embarked on an affair with [[Alexander Stuart Frere]] (1892–1984), who later became chairman of the publishing house [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]]. Frere, 26 years her junior, initially went to stay at the Chalet Soleil to catalogue her large library, and a romance ensued. The affair lasted several years. In 1933, Frere married the writer and theater critic Patricia Wallace,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Morgan|first=Joyce|title=The Countess from Kirribilli|publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2021|isbn=978-1-76087-517-6|location=Australia|pages=263}}</ref> and Arnim was the godmother of the couple's only daughter Elizabeth (later Elizabeth Frere Jones) who was named in her honour.<ref name=romhild/>

In 1930, Arnim set up a home in [[Mougins]] in the south of France, seeking a warmer climate. She created a rose garden there and called the house ''Mas des Roses''. She continued to entertain her social and literary circle there, as she had done in Switzerland. She kept this house to the end of her life, although she moved to the United States in 1939 at the beginning of the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref name=BGG/> She died of [[influenza]] at the Riverside Infirmary, [[Charleston, South Carolina]], on 9 February 1941, aged 74, and was cremated at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, [[Maryland]]. In 1947 her ashes were mingled with those of her brother, Sir Sydney Beauchamp, in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Tylers Green, [[Penn, Buckinghamshire]].<ref name=ODNB/> The Latin inscription on her tombstone reads ''parva sed apta'' (small but apt), alluding to her short stature.<ref>Vickers, Salley, in the introduction to Elizabeth von Arnim, 'The Enchanted April' Penguin: 2012 {{ISBN|978-0-141-19182-9}}</ref>