Andrew Doob and Leandro Franca
Ernest Hemingway
loved to consider himself to be “a man”, and a man he was…. a man of many
wives! On September 23rd, 1921, Hemingway married the first love of his life;
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. She was born on November 9th, 1891 and on October
10th, 1923 gave birth to her son John (Jack) Nicanor Hemingway. Elizabeth lived to the
age of 87 (she died January 22cnd, 1979), but unfortunately, her marriage with
Hemingway couldn’t be nearly as long as her life.
Later
in his life, more specifically on May 10th, 1927, Ernest Hemingway was once
again married to yet another woman he had fallen for. Pauline Marie Pfeiffer
was actually guilty of having the affair with Ernest that split up him and
Elizabeth. It was only months after Hemingway’s (first) divorce that he had
gotten remarried to Pauline. This marriage, although longer than Hemingway’s
first, didn’t last forever either. However, before their divorce on November
4th, 1940, the couple gave life to yet another two kids who would live to pass
down Hemingway’s blood. Patrick Hemingway born on June 28th, 1928 and just
three years later Gregory Hancock Hemingway was born on November 12th, 1931.
Unfortunately for Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, she died on October 1st, 1951 at the
young age of 56.
Martha Gellhorn was born November 8,
1908, and 32 years later November 21st, 1940 she married Ernest
Hemingway after he was involved in yet another affair (with Martha this time). Hemingway only stayed with Martha for 5
years and later the two divorced in 1945. They had no kids together, but Martha
did however, live to the astounding age of 89.
Mary Welsh, much like
Ernest Hemingway, went through many affairs and divorces, so obviously the two
were just meant for each other. They
met in 1945 and were married the next year on March 14th. At this point, Mary Welsh who was born on November
9th, 1891, was already 56. But Martha was just barely half way through with her
life at this point and in the end had lived longer than any of Hemingway’s
wives, dying at the age of 95 on November 26th, 1986. She and Ernest had no
kids together, but the (for once happily) married couple had no affairs or
divorces either. Martha Welsh had lived with Ernest Hemingway until his death
in 1976.
Sources:
"Hemingwayhome.com | Wives." Hemingwayhome.com
| Home. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. <http://www.hemingwayhome.com/wives/>.
"Pauline Pfeiffer." Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopedia. Web. 30 Nov. 2011.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Pfeiffer>.
"Martha Gellhorn." Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopedia. Web. 30 Nov. 2011.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn>.
"Mary Welsh Hemingway." Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopedia. Web. 30 Nov. 2011.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Welsh_Hemingway>.
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