Ewelina Hańska Ewelina Hańska Eveline Hańska (Ewelina, née Rzewuska, 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia, (now Ukraine) Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański (Wenceslas Hanski) when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac
David Hughes (novelist) Hart-Davies", and then went on to work at the "London Magazine" with his great friend Alan Ross. He married the Swedish actress Mai Zetterling in 1958 and collaborated with her on a number of films and books. They divorced in 1976. He remarried in 1980, and had two children. His later books included a memoir of his friend Gerald Durrell, called "Himself and Other Animals", published in 1997. David Hughes (novelist) David Hughes (27 July 1930 – 11 April 2005) was an Anglo-Welsh novelist. His best known works included "The Pork Butcher" (Constable,1984) for which he was awarded the WH