SC - Heinlein's obit

Thu Apr 5 10:08:35 PDT 2001

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In a message dated 4/5/01 10:03:42 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
Seton1355 at aol.com writes:

> How do you know that the female leads in his book were always (if ever) 
> based 
> on his wife?
> Phillipa
> 

He stated so in an interview he gave many, many years ago. The female lead 
was always the same personality type, and always red headed or with 
red/auburn hair. Even Mama Maureen was considered to have been molded on 
Jeanie, with the same outlooks regarding sexual mores of the time, etc. I 
can't remember if she was that much younger than him, but the lead female 
always seemed to be. In contrast, his first wife was a disasterous marriage 
in which he felt she was selfish. It was asked if he molded the 1st wife in 
Farnham's Freehold on her, but his response was something cryptic like he 
said he couldn't reply to that for good reason; a slander suit.....

Lars

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<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ff80c0">In a message dated 4/5/01 10:03:42 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
 Seton1355 at aol.com writes:
 
 
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 on his wife?
 Phillipa
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 He stated so in an interview he gave many, many years ago. The female lead 
 was always the same personality type, and always red headed or with 
 red/auburn hair. Even Mama Maureen was considered to have been molded on 
 Jeanie, with the same outlooks regarding sexual mores of the time, etc. I 
 can't remember if she was that much younger than him, but the lead female 
 always seemed to be. In contrast, his first wife was a disasterous marriage 
 in which he felt she was selfish. It was asked if he molded the 1st wife in 
 Farnham's Freehold on her, but his response was something cryptic like he 
 said he couldn't reply to that for good reason; a slander suit.....
 
 Lars</HTML>

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