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Ernest Hemingway and his Wives
Plus Agnes Von Kurowsky, Adriana Ivancich, and One or Two Others…
Ernest Hemingway was never the serial lover that some writers have suggested. He was a serial marrier for sure. He could certainly charm women and fall in ‘love’ over a couple of drinks. With others, most certainly with Adriana Ivancich, he became infatuated.
Hemingway’s later childhood seems to have been void of girlfriends: perhaps living with three sisters and a domineering mother was enough? It would take a world war, and a Red Cross nurse, to alter all of that. And, as I’ve written previously:
Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky [the Red Cross nurse], was a tall dark-haired girl from Washington D.C. She was a dutiful daughter and, for two years, stayed at home nursing her ailing widower father. When her father died, in 1910, she took a job at the Washington Public Library, but soon became bored with the dull routine and applied to become a nurse at Bellevue Hospital and was accepted.
Agnes was kind, generous, bright, full of energy, and fond of people; she made an excellent nurse.
With America’s entry into World War One in 1917 she applied to join the Red Cross…
