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4 unusual facts about Hadley Richardson


David O'Neil

O'Neil and his wife Barbara were close friends of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley, who had known O'Neil from St. Louis, and Hemingway wrote an acidulous sketch based on O'Neil.

Hadley Richardson

In 1925 Hadley learned Hemingway was involved with another woman, Pauline Pfeiffer, and she divorced him the following year.

They were also invited to Gertrude Stein's salon, and she in turn visited the young couple in their apartment.

Hemingway decided to use Anderson's letters of introduction, and that spring Ezra Pound invited him and Hadley for tea.



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