I love reading books about The woman behind.......
A real eye-opener was 'The Invisible Woman' ( Nelly Ternan Charles Dickens ) written by Claire Tomalin
Another I enjoyed was ' Lady's Maid ' by Margaret Forster
My favourite 'Woman behind' has to be Dorelia who eventually became the wife of Augustus John. She said something like '' If he turns out not to be a great artist, then I have wasted my life.''

Both Tomalin and Forster are great Biographers and have had access to such amazing archives.
Future Biographers must dread the lack of letters now - since the telephone, emails etc. I wonder what will happen.