All for Love
Great Love Affairs … Great Stories
Megan Gressor & Kerry Cook

‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous words perfectly describe this book. All for Love includes the story of her devoted relationship with Robert Browning, along with 37 other remarkable real-life romances from ancient times to the present day.

The stories are as passionate as they are diverse, encompassing Bonnie and Clyde on their infamous crime spree, Shah Jahan building the magnificent Taj Mahal as a monument to his love for the beautiful Arjumand, the ill-fated love of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, and ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. The marriage of Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly began as a fairy tale and ended in tragedy, as did Isadora Duncan’s tempestuous marriage to the young poet Sergei Yesenin. Ted Hughes and Vincente Minnelli both found love with fragile women: Sylvia Plath and Judy Garland broke their hearts. But there are also happy endings: comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen made each other as happy as they did their audiences; Gertrude Stein’s partnership with Alice B. Toklas lasted for almost 40 years; and after many setbacks, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are together at last.

Joy, obsession, adventure and tragedy all feature in this splendid collection, a companion volume to the same authors’ international bestseller, An Affair to Remember.

Megan Gressor and Kerry Cook are Sydney-based sisters who have long shared a fascination for the history of romance. Megan Gressor is a journalist, editor and critic. She is the author of six non-fiction books. Kerry Cook is a teacher, television scriptwriter and author of a novel and three works of non-fiction. All for Love is their second book in this series, following their earlier collection of love stories, An Affair to Remember.

1 Historic Lovers
David and Bathsheba
Abelard and Heloise
Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal
Bonnie and Clyde
Lord Louise Mountbatten & Edwina Mountbatten

2 Right Royal Romances
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

3 Literary Lovers
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas
Gertrude Stein
Ted Hughes and Sylvia
Cynthia and Arthur Koestler
Harold Pinter and Lady Antonia Fraser
Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron

4 Affairs of the Art
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal
Isadora Duncan and Sergei Yesenin
Charles Boyer and Pat Paterson
Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim
Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate
Peter Bogdanovich and Dorothy Stratten

5 Hollywood lives
Rudolph Valentino and Pola Negri
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
George Burns and Gracie Allen
Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli
Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato
Marilyn Monroe and Joe Di Maggio
Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner