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
Siân James (novelist) series, "Calon Gaeth", which won the 2007 Bafta Cymru award for Best Drama/Drama Serial for Television. She translated Kate Roberts's novel "Y Byw Sy'n Cysgu" into English as "The Awakening". In 1958 Siân James married the actor, Emrys James. They lived for a time near Stratford-upon-Avon, where he worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Their four children were William, Owen, Jo and Anna. Emrys James died in 1989. Siân James (novelist) Siân James (born 1932) is a Welsh novelist, academic and translator, who writes in English. James was born near Llandysul in Carmarthenshire, and attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.