With Ernest Hemingway and Bumby

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (November 9, 1891 – January 22, 1979 Lakeland, Fla.) was the first wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.

She was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and married Ernest Hemingway on September 3, 1921. Together they moved to Paris, France, and in the fall of 1923, as Hadley approached the term of her pregnancy, they returned westward so that their child could be born in North America. On October 10, 1923, Hadley gave birth to John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway in Toronto, Canada. John was nicknamed "Bumby" and "Jack", and later fathered three daughters, including actresses Margaux Hemingway and Mariel Hemingway.

In January 1924 the Hemingway family returned to Paris. Hadley and Hemingway had many adventures together as members of "The Lost Generation," as Gertrude Stein called the expatriates living in Paris. Hemingway recounted these days in his non-fiction book A Moveable Feast. It covered the years 1921-1926 and it recounts the days of the "struggling artist", Hemingway and wife Hadley, and their adventures in the sidewalk cafe society of Paris; and their trips to Switzerland, Austria, and Spain.

In the spring of 1925, the Hemingways met Pauline Pfeiffer, an American expatriate in Paris. After Hadley discovered that her husband and Pfeiffer were having an affair, Hadley filed for divorce from her husband, which was finalized in January 1927.

Among many of Hadley’s friends in Paris was Paul Mowrer. A distinguished American poet, journalist and political writer, and the first-ever recipient of a Pulitzer Prize awarded for foreign correspondence, Hadley had known him since the spring of 1927. On July 3, 1933, Hadley and Paul Mowrer were married in London, where Mowrer was at the time covering the World Economic Conference. Later that year the Mowrers permanently returned to the United States. Hadley Mowrer remained on friendly terms with her first husband until his death.

[edit] References

• Alice Hunt Sokoloff: Hadley - The First Mrs. Hemingway, New York (1973)
• Carlos Baker: Ernest Hemingway - A Life Story, London (1969)
• Bernice Kert: The Hemingway Women , New York (1983)

[edit] External links

• Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure, Paris, Hadley (PBS)

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