Virginia did not object, but "Fanny's" indiscreet writings about her literary love caused great scandal.
Their love caused a huge trauma for both families, but it was worth it, she said.
The theory went thus: Being in the ecstasy (from the Greek for derangement) of love caused the blood to boil, the hot distillation to rise up and sear the brain and so affect it to madness.
But he was massively endowed with talent, too, and recordings such as Cry to Me and Everybody Needs Somebody to Love caused some (Wexler included) to consider him soul's greatest singer.
The New Yorker, September 11 , 1926 P. 17A telephone near an open window on the inner court of the Algonquin and a poor connection on long distance call when a well-known actor was trying to make himself heard by a distant love, caused great hilarity.
The statue of her carved by Antonio Canova, in which she insisted on being depicted naked as a goddess of love, caused the cardinal so much embarrassment that he not only refused to allow it to be displayed in public, but would only show it to close acquaintances by torchlight.
