Eileen Hall

Eileen Hall was an American poet. She was a friend of Ford Madox Ford's.^[1] She married Dr Michael Lake^[2] 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 Antigua; her father's family was from Oxford 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.^[3]

Hall travelled to Paris with her friend the painter Janice Biala. Hall's friend Willard Trask invited both women to one of Ford Madox Ford's regular Thursday afternoon salons.^[4] Ford and Biala fell in love, and stayed together until Ford's death in 1939.^[5]

Works

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