Shadow lovers : the last affairs of H.G. Wells / Andrea Lynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynn, Andrea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--Relations with women.

Wells, H. G.

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Relations with women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.

Summary:

Nearing age seventy, 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 Gellhorn, twenty-five and forty 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." In Shadow Lovers, Andrea Lynn has created a fascinating study of the very personal side of one of this century's greatest thinkers. Drawing on papers recently made public by the Wells estate, Lynn documents Wells's relationship with each of these femmes fatales. She also paints a vivid portrait of the early part of this century in the United States, Paris, and London.

Contents:

1 Secret Places of the Heart: HG in Love and in His Postscript 1

2 The Anatomy of Frustration: HG's Birth and Rebirths 33

3 The Undying Fire: HG and Moura Budberg, 1920, 1932-1946 105

4 Star Begotten: HG and Constance Coolidge, 1935-1937 213

5 The Passionate Friends: HG and Martha Gellhorn, 1935 329

6 Epilogue: Beyond the Shadow of Love 441.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-512) and index.

ISBN:

0813333946

OCLC:

48475341