0Literary AffairsAs the new book Furious Love burns up the bestseller list, we pick the literary couples that had the most over-the-top, passionate relationships in history.Updated Jul. 14, 2017 5:41PM EDT / Published Aug. 14, 2010 11:28AM EDT Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody D.H. Lawrence and FriedaHulton Archive / Getty Images Vita Sackville West and Harold NicholsonE. O. Hoppe, Hulton Archive / Getty Images; AP Photo Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares AP Photo Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn Hulton Archive / Getty Images Sylvia Plath and Ted HughesEverett Collection Norman Mailer and Norris Church Mailer Ron Galella, WireImage / Getty Images
Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody D.H. Lawrence and FriedaHulton Archive / Getty Images Vita Sackville West and Harold NicholsonE. O. Hoppe, Hulton Archive / Getty Images; AP Photo Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares AP Photo Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn Hulton Archive / Getty Images Sylvia Plath and Ted HughesEverett Collection Norman Mailer and Norris Church Mailer Ron Galella, WireImage / Getty Images