25 Facts About Hadley Richardson

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of American author Ernest Hemingway.

In Paris, Hemingway pursued a writing career, and through him Richardson met other expatriate American and British writers.

In 1925, Hadley Richardson learned of Hemingway's affair with Pauline Pfeiffer.

In 1933, Hadley Richardson married a second time, to journalist Paul Mowrer, whom she met in Paris.

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was born on November 9,1891, in St Louis, Missouri, the youngest of five children.

Hadley Richardson's father was less protective, but in 1903 he died by suicide in response to financial difficulties.

Hadley Richardson attended Mary Institute in St Louis, and then attended college at Bryn Mawr.

However, when her mother decided Hadley Richardson was "too delicate, both physically and emotionally," she left college.

Hemingway scholar Jamie Barlowe believes Hadley Richardson represented a "True Woman" as opposed to a "New Woman" of the early 20th century.

Hadley Richardson's mother did allow Richardson to visit her former Bryn Mawr roommate Edna Rapallo in Vermont one summer.

When her mother developed Bright's Disease, Hadley Richardson nursed her until her death.

Shortly after her mother's death, in December 1920, Hadley Richardson visited her old roommate Kate Smith in Chicago, and through her met Hemingway, who was living with Smith's brother and was employed as an associate editor of the monthly journal Cooperative Commonwealth.

Hadley Richardson believed she knew what she was doing, and more importantly, she had an inheritance with which to support herself and a husband.

Hadley Richardson went there to buy James Joyce's works, which she liked, because Beach had published Joyce's Ulysses.

Hadley Richardson went alone to Geneva in December 1922 to meet Hemingway who was covering a peace conference.

Hadley Richardson was named for his mother Hadley and for the young Spanish matador Nicanor Villalta, who had impressed Hemingway the previous summer.

Hadley Richardson hired a woman to help with housework and with Bumby, and borrowed a pram to take the baby on walks in the Luxembourg Gardens.

Hadley Richardson was especially grateful for Mowrer's warm relationship with Bumby.

Hadley Richardson continued to receive royalties from The Sun Also Rises, which included the royalties for the 1957 film.

When Hadley Richardson left her marriage to Hemingway, she left the limelight.

Hadley Richardson reportedly saw Hemingway only twice after their divorce.

Hotchner, the last time Hemingway reported seeing Hadley Richardson was after a brief and spontaneous meeting in Paris.

Hadley Richardson died on January 22,1979, in Lakeland, Florida, at the age of 87.

Hadley Richardson is buried in New Hampshire at Chocorua Cemetery in Tamworth.

The book, which is based on extensive research, including the author's exclusive access to a series of taped conversations with Hadley Richardson, was reissued in 2011 as Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife.