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Title: Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love & War 1930 – 1949
Author: SOMERVILLE JANET
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/10/2019
Imprint: FIREFLY
Price: $49.95
Publishing status: Active
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote
letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the
lives and loves of the people who wrote them. When the author is a brilliant writer who lived an
exciting, eventful life, the letters are especially interesting.
Martha Gellhorn was a strong-willed, self-made, modern woman whose journalism, and life, were
widely influential at the time and cleared a path for women who came after her. An ardent
anti-fascist, she abhorred “objectivity shit” and wrote about real people doing real things with
intelligence and passion. She is most famous, to her enduring exasperation, as Ernest
Hemingway’s third wife.
Gellhorn’s work and personal life attracted a disparate cadre of political and celebrity friends,
among them, Sylvia Beach, Ingrid Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Norman Bethune, Robert Capa,
Charlie Chaplin, Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang, Colette, Gary Cooper, John Dos Passos,
Dorothy Parker, Maxwell Perkins, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Antoine de Saint-Exupory,
Orson Welles, H.G. Wells – the people who made history in her time and beyond.
Yours, for Probably Always is a curated collection of letters between Gellhorn and the
extraordinary personalities that were her correspondents in the most interesting time of her life.
Gellhorn’s life, reportage, fiction and correspondence reveal her passionate advocacy of social
justice and her need to tell the stories of “the people who were the sufferers of history.”
Renewed interest in her life makes this new collection, packed with newly discovered letters and
pictures, fascinating reading.
ISBN: 9780228101864
Dimension: 241mm X 165mm