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The Hemingway Women - Softcover. Kert, Bernice. Publisher: W. Synopsis About this title About this edition Synopsis A unique view of Hemingway, the man and the writer, through the women he loved and who loved him. Hemingway married four times, each time to a fascinating person: Hadley Richardson, who shared the Paris years and one son; Pauline Pfeiffer, the mother of two more sons, who created a haven in Key West; Martha Gellhorn, a writer and acclaimed journalist; and Mary Welsh, a Time correspondent.

Drawing on letters and interviews with the living women, Bernice Kert sheds new light on the Hemingway heroines and their real-life prototypes. I couldn't stop reading it. Review On the overloaded shelf of Hemingway biographies, this perceptive group portrait claims a unique spot. Review Absorbing.

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Publisher W. Buy Used Condition: Good Item in very good condition! Learn more about this copy. I did wish for an epilogue, to find out what happened to his sons; I was curious too about how he related to his sisters and daughters-in-law, but the wives were interesting. If you're a fan of Hemingway and looking for fresh insight onto his life and work, this is probably worth checking out.

This book is about all the Hemingway wives, and also a couple affairs on the side. It starts out with Hadley, Ernest's first wife, then moves to Pauline, then to Martha, and finally to Mary. Ernest continues a correspondence with Hadley throughout his life, and realizes what a great thing he had with her. The marriage between Pauline and Ernest fail after it produces two sons, and Ernest is very bitter towards her til the very end.

Martha seems to be short marriage, and Ernest couldn't live with her independence and ambition to report on the war overseas.

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Mary is with him to the very end, although she should have left him numerous times. There were also affairs on the side that didn't result in marriage such as with Jane and Adrianna. Ernest was very mean and abrasive to his three wives after Hadley, and it makes you wonder if it stems from his guilt of what he did to her and their relationship.

Ernest needed to be waited on hand and foot, but also resented it. He drank too much, and berated his wives too much to the utter astonishment of supporters and friends. He became very paranoid towards the end of his life. Eventually ending his life, which was not reported to years later. I really enjoyed this book, and will continue to follow up on Ernest's numerous books, along with Mary's memoir.

This book was highly interesting. It was a look at his women, but by looking at him through this prism it gave a distinctive look at Hemingway himself. I found myself staying up too late at night to read this book.

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Marty was my favorite wife. She was just awesome. I wonder how much of his bad behavior was due to mental illness and how much to just being an ass. One of my all time favorite books. Lengthy and still very engrossing. The author has such a wonderful way of giving each woman in Hemingway's life the attention they deserve. As Gellhorn has stated, there are not just footnotes in someone else's life.

I can't recommend this book enough. A different point of view on Hemingway. I thought that the Mellow book on Hemingway was better and addressed the women in his life in an equally fair way. Certainly this work gives us more information, but I didn't feel more enlightened. Claire M. Author 18 books 35 followers. I have read several Hemingway biographies, and in some ways this is the most interesting.

This book prompted me to read Gellhorn's biography because I was so impressed with the way Ms. Kert brought these women to the page. The women he married, dated, abused were in some ways more interesting than he was. When my wife saw me perusing this one in the shop before I bought it, I explained that Hemingway's real-life story is a lot more interesting than a lot of his fiction is.

Not that I don't like any of his work, but I have always found it hit-or-miss, with more of the latter than you would expect given his stature. In that respect and in most others, it did not disappoint. You not only learn a lot about the real women behind some of his characters, you get to know them pretty well. Certainly a lot better than you get to know most of the women in his stories!

As readable as it is well-researched, this is a really fascinating look at a side of the story that has otherwise been underappreciated for decades. If I have to criticize something, Hemingway himself isn't as well-developed as he could be. The tailspin that was his last few years is especially underdeveloped - twenty years after his suicide when this was published, surely some light had been some light shed on just what had happened - but then again, the book isn't about him.

Blonde, witty, aristocratic and smart as a whip, Gellhorn connected easily with the famous author, discussing politics, war and her travels abroad. She befriended Pfeiffer, with the latter allowing her to spend two weeks sunning in the Hemingways' garden. By the time Gellhorn left Key West, Hemingway was mesmerized by her and eventually followed her to New York, where he called her constantly from his hotel, claiming he was "dreadfully lonely.

It was the beginning of the end of Hemingway and Pfeiffer's marriage, although it took some time before they decided to make their divorce official in Just 16 days after they parted ways, Hemingway married Gellhorn, but their union would be the shortest of all his marriages, lasting only a handful of years. One of the contributing factors that caused tension between the couple was Gellhorn's long absences as she traveled the world to cover the news.

Hemingway was apparently resentful of this, writing her in "Are you a war book ernest hemingways wives and lovers, or wife in my bed? To say the least, their marriage was unconventional and competitive, and for whatever his reasons, Hemingway began playing the field again. Soon, Gellhorn would find herself in the exact same position as Pfeiffer: She was now playing the role of ex-wife-to-be while Hemingway's new mistress, journalist Mary Welsh, waited in the wings.

Gellhorn and Hemingway divorced in Born in in Minnesota, Mary Welsh was a journalist on assignment in London when she met Hemingway in Unlike Gellhorn, who carried herself with sophistication and was just as or even more ambitious than Hemingway, Welsh was considered bourgeoisie and quite content with letting her lover steal the limelight.

Both were married to other people when they met, and both decided to end those relationships for each other. For Hemingway, it would be his fourth time down the altar while for Welsh, her third. In Marchthe two wed in Cuba, and that same year, Welsh experienced a miscarriage. Fifteen days after his divorce inhe married Martha, and he sent Fife the kill from the honeymoon hunt.

Though the wives and mistresses of Ernest Hemingway were often enemies, they were often also friends. In fact, Fife and Mary spent many a summer together in Cuba in the s. A strange sisterhood indeed. After Hadley, the woman celebrated in A Moveable FeastHemingway went on to share his life with three other spectacular — and patient! In writing Mrs.

Hemingway I wanted to illuminate the experiences of all four Hemingway wives: some of whom have been celebrated, some of whom have been maligned, some of whom have been forgotten. But at the end of the day, I wanted to show how it might have felt to be in love with such a talented and difficult man — and what it might have been like to be loved by him.

Being in love with him must have been like being in that beam of light.