Stella Bowen

MB came from a well-to-do English family with strong connections to the arts. After her father died, however, her mother's mismanagement of his fortune, combined with Mary's own difficulty in managing money, left her constantly...

When they first met, JR was thirty-four and looked twenty, while Ford was fifty, fat and wheezing. She moved in with Ford and his common-law wife, Stella Bowen , and became embroiled in a painful triangle.

VH marked several points of decline in her relationship with Ford . She told Rebecca West that Ford was somewhat repelled by her after he learned in 1914 that she had syphilis. She also...

FMF began an affair with novelist Jean Rhys , who moved in with Ford and his common-law wife, Stella Bowen , for a time.

In 1919 he met and began an affair with the Australian painter Stella Bowen (with whom he had a daughter, Esther Julia ). It was probably in connection with this relationship that he changed his...

The book was published after her affair with Ford was over, and it was written in revenge for Ford's leaving her. All four parties to their relationship (Rhys, her first husband , Ford, and Ford's...

After months of negotiation, FMF and Ezra Pound persuaded patron John Quinn to finance the new review. Quinn, who was angry with James Joyce over issues involving manuscripts, demanded that Joyce should be excluded from...

FMF moved to Paris with his common-law wife, Australian Stella Bowen , and their daughter Esther Julia .

After he had been living for four years in France (scene of his relationships with Stella Bowen and Jean Rhys and of his editorship of the transatlantic review) FMF travelled to the United States...