I love her more than anything in the world & always have
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Martha Gellhorn writes from her mother's death bed
Edna Fischel Gellhorn. Photo: Wikimedia. Martha Gellhorn was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1908, one of three children to suffragist Edna and gynaecologist George Gellhorn. By the time of her death in 1998, she had gained a solid reputation as one of the greatest war correspondents in modern history, best known for her reporting during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1970, aged sixty-two, she moved to Knightsbridge where she would stay for the rest of her life. This was also the year that her beloved mother, Edna—once a leading activist and similarly driven—would pass away, aged…
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