A Purple Plaque was placed on the cottage she lived in near Kilgwrrwg, north-west of Chepstow, as part of a national effort to commemorate remarkable women
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Martha Gellhorn
Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
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culture · American war correspondent (1908–1998) · journalist · novelist · writer · war correspondent · also Martha Gellhorn, Martha Ellis Gellhorn, Gellhorn
Born 8 November 1908 · Died 15 February 1998 · Q120085
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2021· 2 entries
Hemingway, a three-episode, six-hour documentary recapitulation of Hemingway's life, labors, and loves, aired on PBS
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2019· 2 entries
toronto.com: Martha Gellhorn was a legend in her own time — and beyond
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A blue English Heritage plaque was unveiled at Gellhorn's former London home, the first to feature the dedication of "war correspondent"
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2018· 1 entry
Houston Chronicle: A Woman and Her Wars: Paula McLain’s new novel focuses on Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway
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2012· 2 entries
Newsweek: In ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Martha Gellhorn Finally Gets Her Due
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Gellhorn was played by Nicole Kidman in Philip Kaufman's film, Hemingway & Gellhorn
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2011· 1 entry
Gellhorn was the subject of an hour-long episode of the World Media Rights series Extraordinary Women, which airs on the BBC, and periodically in the United States on PBS
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1998· 4 entries
Died 1998-02-15.
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“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
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“Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”
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By apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind
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1995· 1 entry
To report on poverty in that country, which was published in the literary journal Granta
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1990· 1 entry
Went door to door in the slum areas of Panama City to report on civilian casualties resulting from the U
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1979· 1 entry
But continued working in the following decade, covering the civil wars in Central America
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded O. Henry Award (1958).
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1954· 1 entry
Married the former managing editor of Time Magazine, T
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1949· 3 entries
And developed a strong platonic friendship
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Gellhorn adopted a boy, Sandro, from an Italian orphanage
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In 1949, Gellhorn adopted a boy, Sandro, from an Italian orphanage.
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1945· 1 entry
Gellhorn had romantic liaisons with "L," Laurance Rockefeller, an American businessman (1945); journalist William Walton (1947) (no relation to the British composer); and medical doctor David Gurewitsch (1950)
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1943· 1 entry
To cover the Italian Front: "Are you a war correspondent, or wife in my bed
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1932· 1 entry
Gellhorn was hired by Harry Hopkins, whom she had met through her friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
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1930· 2 entries
When she was 22 years old, and lasted until 1934
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Determined to become a foreign correspondent, she went to France for two years, where she worked at the United Press bureau in Paris, but was fired after she reported sexual harassment by a man connected with the agency
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1926· 1 entry
Gellhorn graduated from John Burroughs School in St
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-11-08.
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