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
Simon Clark (novelist) Simon Clark (novelist) Simon Clark (born 20 April 1958) is a horror novelist from Doncaster, England. He is the author of the novel "The Night of the Triffids", the novella "Humpty's Bones", and the short story "Goblin City Lights", which have all won awards. Most of his stories are based in Yorkshire, his home county. He also uses a technique that he calls "The Art of Wandering". The idea for "Goblin City Lights" arose from wandering in a London graveyard. Simon Clark was born on 20 April 1958 in Doncaster, England. He is married and has two children. Clark began