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“... he turned Catholic for Pauline, but that only led to rows about birth control; he came to detest Martha. The record of wives and mistresses is largely a record of failure. It seems Hemingway believed that by expending semen you were giving up juices necessary to good writing, a view that puts wives in a difficult position. He wanted perfection of the life as ...”

“... with the time he spent in Madrid in 1937, when he ate ‘scrappy meals’ with Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn and listened to Chopin on the gramophone while shells exploded around the Florida Hotel, where they were all living. The war changed Matthews: he became more analytical, more historically minded, more alert to injustice and class conflict. He ...”

“... must have if they are to be any good at all: the determination to see it as only they can. Martha Gellhorn was famous for several things, among them being married to ‘E’ and never talking about it, but once, in my presence, she pointed at a candle and said: ‘If E was here he would say there were two candles. He’d insist. Even though we can ...”

“... poodle across America for the (Thomas) Manns; she drank cocktails in Paris with Jane Bowles and Martha Gellhorn; in Grasse and California she cooked and ate with M.F.K. Fisher and Julia Child. And when she settled in England in the 1960s, Elizabeth David told her that the bit in her first novel about a dinner of sea urchins, ‘heaped in a great ...”

“... the night to see if there was any action, but heard not a thing. The other guest at supper was Martha Gellhorn, both of them getting on and quite pissed, so that Russell spent the meal rushing from one end of the table to the other as each in turn slowly toppled off her chair. Duff Cooper’s philanderings are often quite funny. Having rekindled an ...”

“... Russians entered Berlin (she died and he survived) we learn no more than that. In a discussion of Martha Gellhorn’s novel Point of No Return, Sollors tells us that Gellhorn was changed by her visit to Dachau; but he doesn’t say that her fury was compounded by a failed love affair with General James Gavin, whom the ...”