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Originally Posted by Doitsu
According to this German source, von Arnim-Schlagenthin was arrested in 1899.
According to this old German 11/12/1899 newspaper von Arnim-Schlagenthin was released on bail for health reasons on 11/08/1899. He supposedly had to pay 200,000 Marks. (It's mentioned on page 13 of the PDF under Kleine Chronik.) The newspaper also mentions that he spent several weeks in prison in connection with criminal proceedings against former members of the Stettin National-Hypotheken-Kreditgesellschaft bank. |
Yes! That fits in very well with Elizabeth's style of using material from her own life in her books, and her first hand knowledge of conditions in jail.
I spent hours scouring the internet, but could not find anything about this possibility in the English literature.
Thanks again - and with the thanks another request. On the original opening cover of
The Benefactress there were the lines:
Man bedarf der Leitung
Und der männlichen Begleitung
which comes from a longer verse written by Wilhelm Busch. It's said to be quite earthy. What does it mean in English?