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Ford Madox Hueffer." The original Mrs. Hueffer sued the paper for
libel and won a substantial sum in damages.
Although Ford and Violet were not party to the suit, and did not
have to testify, some of their friends pointedly asked to see the
divorce papers. None were forthcoming, and many of Violet's friends
dropped her. The situation between her and Ford became more and
more acrimonious, and in the summer of 1915, he enlisted in the
army, as the best method of breaking off with Violet. When he was
"demobbed," he married one of Pound's circle in London, an Australian
girl named Stella Bowen.
Violet continued to live alone in South Lodge, hoping that Ford
would return. During the 1920s, she was one of the literary luminaries
of London, giving parties that were attended by the socialites of the
time. By the 1930s, she was becoming aged and, as Douglas Goldring
says, "tiresome." She had published her last novel in 1921, but
in 1932, she published one of her best books, The Wife of Rossetti.
Most of her friends drifted away, and she died during a bombardment
of London in 1942.
38. The Letters of Ezra Pound, p. 28.
39. Ford, It Was the Nightingale, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott
Co., 1933, p. 156.
40. Pound, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly," Personae, New York,
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1926, p. 195.
41. Eliot, Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, p. 5.
III
1. Pound, Polite Essays, London, Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1937, p. 8.
2. Robert Graves, The Crowning Privilege, London, Cassell &
Co., Ltd., 1955, p. 115.
3. Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1941, p. 106.
4. The Letters of W. B. Yeats, edited by Allan Wade, London,
Rupert Hart-Davis, Ltd., 1954, p. 543.
5. The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, pp. 210-11.
6. Ibid., p. 320.
7. John Butler Yeats' Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats, and Others,
edited by Joseph Hone, New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1946,
p. 133.
8. John Masefield, Some Memories of W. B. Yeats, New York,
The Macmillan Company, 1940, pp. 6-9.
9. Goldring, South Lodge, p. 49.
10. Alexander Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet,
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1949, p. 167.