He found solace in the arms of Adah Isaacs Menken, an actress of little talent but huge impact, with whom he (innocently) contracted a bigamous and short-lived marriage.
There is also, towards the end of the book, a section entitled 'Fugitive Women', which includes shorter sketches of Emily Brontë, Julie de Lespinasse, Violet Hunt, Vernon Lee, Adah Isaacs Menken and Lady Hester Stanhope.
Jason Isaacs | Isaacs Art Center | Sonya Isaacs | Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading | Jeremy Isaacs | Isaacs, Australian Capital Territory | Isaacs | Isaac Isaacs | Alan Menken | Adah Isaacs Menken | Solomon Stanwood Menken | Rufus Isaacs | Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll | Harry Z. Isaacs | Godfrey Isaacs | Alice Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading | Susan Sutherland Isaacs | Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading | Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading | Shepard Menken | James Isaacs | Ira Isaacs | Ike Isaacs | George Isaacs | Avrom Isaacs |
The first notable occasion, was when American actress Adah Isaacs Menken wore one in 1861 in the play Mazeppa, based on Byron's "Mazeppa", in which she played a Polish man who was tied nude to the back of a wild horse by his enemies.
It included: Harry Smith/Herman Melville, Joan Larkin/Emily Dickinson, Zizwe Ngafua/Paul Laurence Dunbar, Enid Dame/Adah Isaacs Menken, Maurice Kenny/Pauline Johnson, Richard Davidson/Walt Whitman, Ellen Marie Bissert/Alice Carey, and Donald Lev/Edgar Allan Poe.