Eileen Hall was an American poet. She was a friend of

Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review'' were instrumental in ...

's. She married Dr Michael Lake and her first collection - ''The Fountain and the Bough'' (1938) - is dedicated to him. After the marriage she was also known as Eileen Lake and Eileen Hall Lake. Hall was born in

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; her father's family was from

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and her mother's family was part French and part Irish, the French side having been in the West Indies since the mid seventeenth century. Hall travelled to Paris with her friend the painter

Janice Biala Janice Biala (September 11, 1903 – September 24, 2000) was a Polish-born American artist whose work, spanning seven decades, is well regarded both in France and the United States. Her work lies between figuration and abstraction. A modernist, sh ...

. Hall's friend Willard Trask invited both women to one of Ford Madox Ford's regular Thursday afternoon salons. Ford and Biala fell in love, and stayed together until Ford's death in 1939.Jason Andrew, P:R.Review 182, page 33.

Works

* ''The Fountain and the Bough'', Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

Footnotes

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