Jane Hawking

Jane Hawking (* 29. March 1944 as Beryl Jane Wilde ) is a British Romanistin . She was first married to the physicist Stephen Hawking and wrote an autobiography .

Life

Jane Wilde studied languages and earned academic doctoral degree ( Ph.D. ) in Romance. She married Stephen Hawking in 1965. They had three children: a son in 1967, daughter Lucy Hawking in 1969 and a son in 1979. Stephen Hawking separated from Jane in 1990 and divorced in 1995.

Two years later, Jane married family friend and musician Jonathan Hellyer Jones. She wrote an autobiography about her marriage to Stephen, Music to Move the Stars: A Life with Stephen, which appeared in 1999. After the physicist separated from his second wife, he and Jane had more contact again. 2008 greatly updated edition of the biography was titled Traveling to Infinity - My Life with Stephen , what the basis of the film The Theory of Everything ( The Theory of Everything , 2014) was. In it, Felicity Jones plays the role of Jane Hawking.

Works

• Traveling to Infinity - My Life with Stephen . Alma Books, 2008, ISBN 1-84688-065-3 .
• Music to Move the Stars: A Life with Stephen . Macmillan Publishers , London 1999, ISBN 0-333-74686-4 .

Web links

• Jane Hawking in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birthday on famousbirthdays.com
2. ↑ Pontificia Acadedemia Scientiarvm: L'attribution de la Medaille D'or Pie XI 1975. P. 14 (PDF) .
3. ↑ Books: Stephen Hawking: the man who mistook his wife for a nurse - independent.co.uk
4. ^ Brief history of a first wife on guardian.co.uk
5. ^ Marriage before black holes in: Der Spiegel 34/1999 of August 23, 1999
6. ↑ Deirdre Fernand: Welcome back to the family, Stephen . In: The Sunday Times . May 6, 2007. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
7. ↑ Christina Houen: Book Review: Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen . In: The West Australian . December 7, 2010. Accessed on January 14, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.