Anias first pursued Henry's wife June, but switched her affections
Dorothy Parker & Robert Benchley
A platonic couple, but they relied on each other and drank together. A lot. Like, too much.
Another platonic couple, part mentee / mentor, part frienemies
Elizabeth Barret & Robert Browning
He was her fanboy and they eloped
Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
Literary lady loves and mentors to a lost generation
Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett
The Southern Lady playwright and the former Pinkerton agent / detective novelist carried on a 30 year affair
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley & Percy Shelley
She set a standard for literary creativity that is still relevant today. He layed around, wrote a few poems, and fucked Mary's step-sister
Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre
They met in college and stayed together for 51 years
She bit him in the face when the met.
That was the highlight of their relationship
Virgina Woolf & Vita Sackville West
They were both married to men but literary lady love won out
"He was a punk, she did ballet" ~ quite an accurate assesment of Zelda and Scott
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