Three in Love: Menages a Trois from Ancient to Modern Times Book

	Preface: Three on Three
1	The Meaning of Menage a Trois: From Plato to Sleaze	3
2	Introduction to Triography: A Historical Overview of Threes	13
3	The Myth of Menage: Oedipus; Sigmund Freud; Genesis	26
4	The Courts of Love: Diane de Poitiers, Henry II, and Catherine de' Medici; Moliere, Armande Bejart, and Michel Baron; Voltaire and the Marquis and Marquise du Chatelet	41
5	Three in Mind: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Baroness de Warens, and Claude Anet; Rousseau, Sophie d'Houdetot, and the Marquis de Saint-Lambert	56
6	In the Realm of the Senses: Casanova; The Marquis de Sade	68
7	That Hamilton Woman: Admiral Horatio Nelson, Emma Hamilton, and Sir William Hamilton	86
8	Romantic Rebels: Percy and Mary Shelley and Frankenstein; Lord Byron and the Count and Countess Guiccioli	103
9	The Great Man, His Wife, and His Mistress: Friedrich Engels and the Burns Sisters; Alexandre and Ida Dumas and Roger de Beauvoir; Victor and Adele Hugo and Juliette Drouet; Ivan Turgenev and Pauline and Louis Viardot	116
10	The Queen and Her Cuckolds: Catherine the Great; Queen Victoria; Harriet and John Taylor and John Stuart Mill; George Eliot and the Leweses; John and Effie Ruskin and John Millais; Jane and William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti	133
11	Femme Fatale: Lou Andreas-Salome, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ree, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud	149
12	The Wild West: Sir Richard Burton and the Mormons; Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Etta Place; Tom Mix; Bonnie and Clyde's Three-Way Capers	165
13	The Great American Sex Scandal: Victoria Woodhull, Theodore Tilton, and Henry Ward Beecher	178
14	The Balls of Amherst: A New England Peyton Place	191
15	The Roller-Coaster: Anais Nin and Henry and June Miller	206
16	Menage as Gay Metaphor: Noel Coward and Design for Living; Christopher Isherwood (and Bob Fosse) and Cabaret; W. H. Auden	224
17	The Romeo and Juliet of Threes: Henri-Pierre Roche and Franz and Helen Hessel	234
18	The Bells of Bloomsbury: Vanessa and Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, and David Garnett	245
19	Carrington's Lovers: Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Lytton Strachey, Ralph Partridge, and Gerald Brenan	257
20	Portraits Real and Surreal: Augustus and Ida John and Dorelia McNeill; Paul and Gala Eluard and Salvador Dali; Pablo Picasso; Alberta Giacometti; Stanley Spencer; Leonore Fini	269
21	State Secrets: Francois and Danielle Mitterrand and Anne Pingeot; Emile and Alexandrine Zola and Jeanne Rozerot; Charles Parnell and Kitty and Willy O'Shea; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Missy LeHand and Earl Miller; the Kennedys	287
22	On the Left: George Bernard Shaw, May Morris, and Henry Sparling; Jack Reed, Louise Bryant, and Eugene O'Neill; Comrades Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Inessa Armand	304
23	Tories a Trois: Radclyffe Hall, Mabel Batten, and Una Troubridge; Admiral and Edwina Mountbatten and Pandit Nehru; Harold and Dorothy Macmillan and Bob Boothby	319
24	Menage and the Holocaust: Sinners and Survivors: Dorothy and Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge; Joseph and Magda Goebbels and Lida Baarova; Oskar and Emilie Schindler and Mistresses; Marguerite Duras, Robert Antelme, and Dionys Mascolo; Isaac Bashevis Singer	335
25	French Twist: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Bianca Bienenfeld	354
26	The Golden Phallus: D. H. Lawrence; Ernest Hemingway; Georges Simenon	369
27	Carolyn's Boys: Rebels Without a Cause: Jack Choreic, Neal and Carolyn Cassady and Allen Ginsberg	389
28	The Pop Menage: Superman, Lois Lane, and Clark Kent; Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and Soon-Yi Previn; Count Dracula and Friends	401
29	The Greatest Party Ever Given: Our Fantasy Bash for Celebrity Threes	413
	Coda	428
	Selected Sources	431
	Acknowledgments	441
	Illustration Credits	443
	Index	445