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ernest hemingway

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Ernest's mother had considerable talent and had once aspired to an opera career and earned money giving voice and music lessons. She was bossy and hardly religious. His mother had wanted to have a set of twins and when this did not happen, she dressed Ernest and his sister Marcelline in girl clothes and also did their hair in the same style, keeping the image of "twins" in effect...
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Some people have said that Grace Hemingway further "feminised" her son in his youth by calling him "Ernestine," but male infants and toddlers of the Victorian middle-class were often dressed as females. While his mother hoped that her son would develop an interest in music, Ernest adopted his father's outdoorsman hobbies of hunting, fishing, and camping in the woods and lakes of northern Michigan...
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