{{Short description|American poet}} '''Eileen Hall''' was an American poet. She was a friend of Ford Madox Ford's.<ref>Ford Madox Ford, in a letter dated 10 November 1936 refers to his "friend Mrs Michael Lake"; see [https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM04605.html]</ref> She married Dr Michael Lake<ref>a dedication to Ford Madox Ford's late memoir ''Return to Yesterday'' reads '[to] Dr. Michael and Mrs Eileen Hall Lake'.</ref> 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.<ref>Dust jacket note of ''The Fountain and the Bough'', 1938.</ref>
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.<ref>Max Saunders, ''Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life'', page 370, and Jason Andrew, 'Ford + Biala: A Fateful Meeting: The Letters of Janice Biala', in P.N.Review 182, Vol. 34 No. 6, July - August 2008, pages 28 - 33.</ref> Ford and Biala fell in love, and stayed together until Ford's death in 1939.<ref>Jason Andrew, P:R.Review 182, page 33.</ref>
==Works== * ''The Fountain and the Bough'', Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
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