Jane Hawking - I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire w

I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had.

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Day, Elizabeth. "Jane Hawking: 'There were four of us in our marriage'." The Observer, Guardian News and Media, 16 May 2015.

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