Aurore started to write after the break-up of her marriage to Baron Casimir Dudevant with whom she had two children: Maurice, in 1823, and Solange in 1828.
The courts also heard it was after the break-up of her first marriage and while holidaying in Jersey with Mrs Tetsill, that Mrs Taylor met her future husband.
The second followed a similar pattern at first, with Robson twice going a breakup, before the Thai finally found her rhythm off the ground and reeled off four straight games.
But Clijsters upped the intensity in game eight to claim the decisive break and followed it up by racing to 40-0 and converting her first match point with an unreturnable serve.
The Birthday Letters was Mr Hughes's first breakwith a self-imposed silence on his grief over the break-up of his marriage to Sylvia Plath and her suicide.