Talk:Hadley Richardson

Incorrect Date
In the third introduction paragraph it mentions that Hadley divorced Hemingway in 1926 and then was remarried in 1993 to Paul Mowrer. However, after following the link to the Paul Mowrer article, it notes that he died in 1971. Obviously, one of these dates is incorrect. I am not sure which as I do not know much about either person. If anyone could fix this as soon as possible that would be great. Thanks. Sweetness46 (talk) 23:19, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * They were married in 1933. Perhaps you read it wrong? Truthkeeper88 (talk) 01:14, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hehe.. Embarrasing. Sorry about that. Sweetness46 (talk) 02:20, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't be embarrassed. Happens to me all the time. Chances are good that I might have made that mistake. I'm at the point where I double and triple check things and still mistakes get by me. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 13:32, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Dubious edit
To the line in the article, "The divorce was finalized in January 1927", someone recently added "and Hadley never recovered, she died a short 52 years later."

This seems to be a bit of guerrilla theater, as the next paragraph seems to imply that she recovered rather well; and 52 years is not a short time!

I suggest the changes be deleted, but I don't feel competent to decide that on my own. --Stpetric (talk) 03:24, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Missing info
This article seems to be missing information concerning an event in 1922, when (apparently) she lost some of her husband's unpublished manuscripts. As this Wall Street Journal article (Longing for the Great Works, APRIL 18, 2009, 7:00 A.M. ET) says:

"We all know the story of how Hadley Hemingway lost a suitcase containing all of her husband's unpublished short stories on a train going through Switzerland in 1922"

Well, I don't know the story so I went to Wikipedia to find out. . . --Smithfarm (talk) 11:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Nothing about the end of her life, or indeed much after World War II. The article just... stops. Ricadus (talk) 17:24, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It does, which is unfortunate. She seems to disappear from view. Sources about her later life would be helpful. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 17:33, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

The article doesn't give an accurate account of how the suitcase containing Hemingway's manuscripts was lost. Hadley did not "misplace" it. She left the suitcase in the care of a porter, and briefly left to buy items for the train trip. When she returned, the suitcase had been stolen. This is how Hemingway himself described the loss. Younggoldchip (talk) 00:18, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Grammar glitch
After a childhood fall from a window, Hadley's mother became overprotective, and curtailed her activities.

In this sentence, the dependent clause "After a childhood fall from a window," modifies "Hadley's mother," not Hadley. It could be fixed this way: "After Hadley as a child suffered a fall from a window, her mother became overprotective and curtailed her activities." Sca (talk) 18:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Similar dangling participle appears in the early life section: who was the youngest child?--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 22:14, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Names
It's somewhat disturbing that the man is known by his last name, and the woman by her first, throughout the article. Some consistency?--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 22:16, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * That's a good question and I wondered how to deal with it as I was writing it. They were both Hemingway so using last names wouldn't work. Should he be referred to as Ernest throughout the article? Truthkeeper88 (talk) 01:16, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Also, the name for her friend is spelled differently: Katy/Katie Smith -- someone authoritative should decide.BlueIris2 (talk) 01:27, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Notability
This person would not be notable had she not briefly been married to Ernest Hemingway. The article should be merged back into the Hemingway article; or, if not, perhaps into a article called Wives of Ernest Hemingway. 97.94.130.17 (talk) 05:22, 16 August 2014 (U

It's clear from the many biographies of Hemingway, and his own words in A MOVEABLE FEAST, that Hadley Richardson was the only wife he never emotionally left behind. Their divorce was the deepest abiding regret of his life. As he told A.E. Hotchner, "When a man is very young, he doesn't know yet that sometimes the first love is the real love." Richardson was also his abiding muse, her personality and words cropping up from his first stories, like "Cat in the Rain," to Catherine Barkley in A FAREWELL TO ARMS and, much later, THE GARDEN OF EDEN. Gioa Diliberto's biography of Richardson makes clear that she was never crushed by Hemingway's powerful personality, never lost his respect or deep affection, and had a satisfying life after their divorce--something that his other wives did not manage. She was in a category of her own. She was a notable person. By the way, I note that Jeanne Hebuterne (Modigliani's last love) has her own Wikipedia entry, as do many other lovers/muses of the great. It's rather late to begin poking fingers at their notability. Younggoldchip (talk) 15:57, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Not notable
Why on earth does she have a Wikipedia page? She did nothing - NOTHING - notable in her own right. She married a very famous man, then a less famous one. That's it. She had a connection to Hemingway but did nothing in her own right to give her notability. Wikipedia shouldn't be making pages for spouses of famous people, people who achieved nothing other than matrimony. 86.189.141.23 (talk) 23:20, 5 May 2024 (UTC)