This was an act of self-assertion. AL
was probably impressed by the sophistication of Ernest, whose father was a wealthy diamond merchant. On marrying him, however, she discovered first that he had an illegitimate daughter...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ada Leverson
Unhappy in her marriage, though putting a good face on it, AL
sought solace in romantic attachments.
Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973.
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She enjoyed flirting, and preferred the company of men to that of women. Her biographer Charles Burkhart
Family and Intimate relationships
John Oliver Hobbes
One of her most notable personal and professional relationships was with the novelist George Moore
. The pair met in 1893, and Moore appears to have fallen in love with the then-still-married Hobbes. A break...
death
John Oliver Hobbes
She had left her parents' home on the Isle of Wight the day before, having spent three energetic days there, and her father later wrote that on leaving she gave no indication of illness or...
