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Air Force
Author_Andrea Lynn
Baron Budberg
Bath Tub
Bertrand De Jouvenel
biographical analysis
British cultural studies
Cap Ferrat
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Crux Ansata
De Jouvenel
early twentieth century
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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femme fatales
first-class quarrels
Gogh
Good Life
Hanover Terrace
Hg Wells
Imaginative Hope
intellectual history
James Fox
Jane Wells
literary relationships
Martha Gellhorn
Post Card
Rebecca West
romantic frustrations
romantic obsession
Vice Versa
Victoria Glendinning
Victorian age
Vincent Van Gogh
Wells personal life research
Women's Progressive Movement
Women’s Progressive Movement
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367287160
- Weight: 1220g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nearing 70, and in what would be the last decade of his life, H.G. Wells fell in love at least three times - once with the much younger Baroness Budberg, and soon thereafter with two well-born Americans, Constance Coolidge and Martha Gelhorn, 25 and 40 years his junior respectively. These would constitute what Wells himself described as his "last flounderings towards the wife idea", and demonstrate in many ways that Wells was driven less by his considerable intelligence than by his obsession to find his ideal lover - what he called his "lover-shadow". This study looks at this very personal side of H.G. Wells. The self-proclaimed Don Juan was said to have "radiated" energy: intellectual, emotional, physical and sexual. Drawing on papers made public by the Wells estate, the author documents Wells' relationship with each of these femme fatales and paints a vivid portrait of the early part of the 20th century in London, Paris and the US.
Andrea Lynn
