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Shadow Lovers UK Edition: The Last Affairs of H.G.Wells

Shadow Lovers UK Edition: The Last Affairs of H.G.Wells

Lynn, Andrea

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ISBN10: 0367287161
ISBN13: 9780367287160
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 17 2019
Pages: 574
Language: English
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.

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