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Hemingway’s Girl

Hemingway’s Girl

Author(s): Erika Robuck

Location(s): Key West

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1930s

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Ernest Hemingway, his second wife, Pauline, (who followed on after Hadley) and their two sons have come to live in Key West. Mariella Bennet, an 18 year old young woman comes to works as a maid in the Hemingway houshold and this is the story of the marriage, seen through her eyes.

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