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Instead of replying to the Time and Tide articles Wells bided his time and, four years later, expressed his mature reflections on the Madame Keun affair in a bitingly amusing novel in which she is caricatured as Dolores Wilbeck. 53 This is not to say that Dolores is simply a fictional portrait of Odette Keun—the reality is more subtle than that—but rather that Wells drew on many of her distinctive characteristics and mannerisms in sketching this wryly malicious vignette.
European admirer called Odette Keun sent Wells a book she had written, an account of her time in post-Revolutionary Russia called Sous Lenin. Keun, the half-Italian half-Dutch daughter of a diplomat had, at 36, led a peripatetic and defiantly unconventional life. She declared that she admired the 58-year-old Wells as ‘a super-star’.
Nov 9, 2019 · Download Citation | Odette Keun: The World of William Clissold (1926); Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady (1927); Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928); The Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930); The ...
Nov 18, 2019 · Odette was a travel writer, the daughter of a Dutch diplomat and of French birth. Today she is probably best known as the lover of HG Wells. This is perhaps a bit unfortunate as Odette was a committed and visionary writer in her own right.
Odette Zoé Keun, née le 10 septembre 1888 à Pera (Empire ottoman) et morte en 1978 à Worthing (Royaume-Uni), est une journaliste et écrivaine et traductrice néerlandaise, de langue française et anglaise, ayant notamment voyagé dans le Caucase et l'Union soviétique.
Jan 8, 2024 · Odette Zo Keun (Pera, 10 September 1888 Worthing, 1978) was a Dutch adventurer, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union. Keun was the daughter of Gustave Henri Keun, at the time first dragoman and secretary of the Dutch consulate in the Ottoman E
TY - JOUR. T1 - Odette Keun: a critical socialist in Menshevic Georgia. AU - Companjen, F.J. PY - 2015. Y1 - 2015. M3 - Article. SN - 0066-4677. VL - II
