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Odette Zoé Keun (10 September 1888 in Pera – 14 March 1978 in Worthing) was a Dutch socialist, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in Europe, including the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union.
Nov 9, 2019 · A young 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.
Sep 6, 2019 · Twentytwo years his junior, Odette Keun was his fan long before they first saw each other, and she apparently even carried a copy of his Outline of History (1920) through her travels in the Caucasus and her imprisonment in Russia. They met in 1924, after Wells broke up with Rebecca West and while his wife, Jane, was still alive.
Oct 4, 2001 · Keun was a socialist and, after the title of one of her earliest novels, une femme moderne. She considered the hymen 'a nonsense', and made the heroines of her novels pay for their own meals (p. 22). She also had very little time for the Bolsheviks and was emphatically not a fellow traveller.
ODETTE KEUN. (1888 -1978) MONIQUE REINTJES. INTRODUCTION. Several years ago, working on my thesis in Russian studies, I came across Au Pays de la Toison d’or, a travel book on Georgia. Among all the other travel stories on the Caucasus it was a unique book, written by Odette Keun, a woman of flesh and blood.
Odette Keun was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul), the daughter of a Dutch diplomat, with mixed Dutch, French, Italian and Greek origins. Her family's first language was French and she was educated by an English nanny.
In a series of articles in Time and Tide (October 1934) which appeared under the title ‘H. G. Wells—The Player’, Odette Keun—who had been Wells’s close friend and companion for the previous decade—strongly criticised him for his...
