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Literature’s Greatest Love Affairs

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Marmight Fri 24-Apr-20 13:32:09

Something to while away the time
I’ll start with :
Hari Kumar & Daphne Manners in
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott.
A doomed love affair with far reaching consequences

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Ilovecheese Fri 24-Apr-20 13:34:28

Maurice and Sarah in The End of the Affair

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Ilovecheese Fri 24-Apr-20 13:35:13

Also doomed but with added miracles

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Missfoodlove Fri 24-Apr-20 13:59:32

Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.

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GrandmaMoira Fri 24-Apr-20 14:14:21

Ross and Demelza Poldark, Heathcliff and Cathy, Pierre and Natasha in War and Peace.

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Ellianne Fri 24-Apr-20 14:56:25

Madame Bovary and Léon
Meggie and Ralph in The Thorn Birds

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Alima Fri 24-Apr-20 15:03:43

Jean Paget and Joe Harman in A Town Like Alice.

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Niobe Fri 24-Apr-20 15:07:50

Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester.

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fevertree Fri 24-Apr-20 15:28:47

Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.

C.S. Lewis and Joy (Davidman).

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TwiceAsNice Fri 24-Apr-20 15:41:01

Cleopatra and Mark Antony

Romeo and Juliet

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Nico97 Fri 24-Apr-20 15:45:32

Homer and Marge Simpson grin

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cavewoman Fri 24-Apr-20 15:48:24

Orpheus and Eurydice

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GrandmaMoira Fri 24-Apr-20 15:48:29

Lara and Yuri in Dr Zhivago.

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Anniebach Fri 24-Apr-20 16:18:54

Cathy and Heathcliff

Scarlett and Rhett

Nina and Jamie , ‘Truly,Madly,Deeply. - not in literature but !

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grumppa Fri 24-Apr-20 16:22:36

Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristran and Iseut, Hélöise and Abélard.

Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman???

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CherryCezzy Fri 24-Apr-20 18:17:49

Elizabeth Barrett and Fitzwilliam Darcy

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Marmight Fri 24-Apr-20 22:44:40

Florentino Anza & Fermina Daza from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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CherryCezzy Fri 24-Apr-20 23:14:14

That should have read Elizabeth Bennett!

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Niobe Fri 24-Apr-20 23:32:10

Maxim deWinter and the 2nd Mrs deWinter

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BradfordLass73 Sat 25-Apr-20 08:07:01
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For me it's Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

She had an extremely controlling and cruel father (he threatened her little dog Flush if she didn't obey him) and
was confined to the upstairs room in her father's house for many years.

However, her book of poetry made her famous and Browning visited, fell in love and contrived a secret wedding. She was 40.

After a blissfully happy marriad life in Italy, though with many personal sadnesses, she died at 55 in Robert's arms.

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LullyDully Sat 25-Apr-20 08:13:19

Jane Eyre and Rochester.

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Pantglas2 Sat 25-Apr-20 08:30:10

Robert Kincaid and Francesca in The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep in the film)

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MarionHalcombe Sun 26-Apr-20 16:55:37

Achilles and Patroclus
Lupin and Tonks
Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot

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grannydarkhair Sun 26-Apr-20 17:29:27

Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser and James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser, Claire and Jamie from the Outlander series of books. Not "high" literature, but very entertaining.

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Calendargirl Mon 27-Apr-20 10:36:26

Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.

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