Unrequited and unequal love
Charlotte Brontë to Professor Constantin Héger
Winston Churchill to Muriel Wilson
Iris Murdoch to David Hicks and Raymond Queneau
W.B. Yeats and Maud Gonne
Andre de Dienes to Marilyn Monroe
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Virginia Stephen and Leonard Woolf
David Hume to La Comtesse de Boufflers
Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell
Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron
Edith Wharton to Morton Fullerton
Rebecca West to H.G. Wells
Conflicted and condemned love
Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer
Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland
Ernest Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky
Edith Piaf to Dmitris Horn and Louis Gérardin
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Loretta Young to Spencer Tracy
Graham Greene to Catherine Walston
Marie Curie to Paul Langevin
Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour
Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lucy Rutherfurd
Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton
Ted Hughes to Sylvia Plath.
