Rene Zandbergen wrote: > Note also that the Gadfly was already written > when Ethel Lilian and Voynich met or married > so Ethel would not have been badly off herself. >From what I could find out, they were married in 1891 while The Gadfly was published in 1897, and written (shortly?) after her affair with Sydney Reilly. So something doesn't click here :-) Best regards, Rafal