War Correspondent Martha Gellhorn. In June 1944 her husband, Ernest Hemingway, tried to sabotage her career out of jealousy. Gellhorn dumped him, snuck aboard a hospital ship, and became one of the few journalists and the only woman to land at Normandy on June 6th, 1944.
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Well, that’s impressive as fuck! That has serious movie potential.
The Trouble I’ve Seen (1936), The Face of War (1959), and Travels with Myself and Another (1978) great pieces of work by her
This just in: Hemingway was kind of a dick.
So Hemingway had small dick energy
If you’ve read Hemingway’s novels, he was always attracted to, and hated, strong women.
I believe (take this with a grain of salt) that just before D-day he was injured in some drunken escapade in Britain and missed a chance to cover the invasion from the start.
What a badass!
Just learned about her this minute, but have known Hemingway since grade school.
So the problem perpetuates.
There’s a really good video of the correspondents that were going to be part of the d-day landing it’s in the 24 hour of d-day series on YouTube. It breaks down the 24 hours of d-day June 6 1944, and I think it’s within the the first 5 hours they have the episode about war correspondents. They talk about her and Hemingway.
What? This is waaaay too interesting. For real? Ernest hemmingway the famous author? He did that to his wife??
Talk about being insecure…
This Hemingway guy seems like a real jerk!
Love his literate but he was such an ass to Martha. Her biography is illuminating.
Martha Gellhorn was a total badass! Extraordinarily brave and an extremely talented war correspondent and writer in her own right.
She kind of looks like Dana Scully.
Love me some Martha! She deserves way more attention in public history/ discourse. If anyone knows a good biography, please reply!
She was also kind of cute
Is this the woman he cheated on his wife back in Key West with? I just toured his Key West house that is now a museum. His 6 toed cats (descendants) are still there & a little graveyard for his beloved cats – gravestones he decorated himself. The museum is awesome! They told us his wife & mother of his children ended up divorcing him & kicking him out of that house because he had an affair with his fellow war correspondent while they were covering the war together. I guess this must be her.
Love it when women dump controlling assholes
Her Wikipedia article is amazing.
Good show!
Hemingway was such a baby.
There was a huge movement to document the war as not to repeat it. Some war movies have scenes from actual battles. I think it was Sam Peckinpah who witnessed atrocities and you can see in his films he knew the subject matter.
Wow, never heard about that, going to read some more….. Great lady😁👍
…snuck aboard a hospital ship, and became one of the few journalists and the only woman to land at Normandy on June 6th, 1944
Sounds like the type of bold and adventurous woman for a manly man like Ernest Hemingway…
Ernest Hemingway, tried to sabotage her career out of jealousy
…oof.
That is definitely old school cool.
She out Hemingwayed, Hemingway
Face of War is a book collection of a ton of her work. It’s the best war book I’ve ever read and generally one of the best books I’ve ever read. If you want to feel what it was like on the ground in WWII you should get it immediately.
Great writer, troubled family, self medicated with alcohol that likely killed most of his brain matter, leading to his final decision. You can be both immensely talented (Hills Like White Elephants) and an asshole. They are not mutually exclusive.
I feel like sneaking on to things used to be easier and getting caught had less repercussions
Ah, she out-Hemingway’d Hemingway!
Hemingway was an asshole
In college I had an entire course on her and her work. Was one of the best classes I took (am now a working journalist)
The more i read about Hemingway, the more i realize Hemingway was the worst.