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Biographies of Jack London and His Family. Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern. Bess Maddern. before marriage. Elizabeth Maddern, who preferred to be called Bess, was born in 1876, and grew up in Oakland, where her father was a plumber. In the mid-1890s she met Jack through his acquaintance with her brother Ted.
On April 7, 1900, Jack London married Elizabeth “Bessie” Maddern, who provided him with two daughters, Joan, born in 1901, and Becky “Bess,” born in 1902. Jack and Bessie divorced in 1905, the same year he wed Charmian Kittredge. Jack and Charmian remained married until his death November 22, 1916.
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Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern. Bess was London's first wife and mother of his two children. They were good friends before they married. Joan London. Joan most resembled her father in becoming politically active on behalf of the working class. Bess "Becky" London Fleming.
Oct 21, 2013 · In the fall of 1899, London went steady with Elizabeth May Maddern, the fiancée of a late friend, but he was soon bicycling to the house of a Russian-born Stanford student and socialist named...
Jan 30, 2024 · Though their visits were fulfilling, London married Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern shortly after. Modern Woman. Kittredge began her writing career about the same time as London's first marriage began, publishing non-fiction essays, which included an article requesting women to stop riding sidesaddle.
Elizabeth May “Bessie”. Maddern. London. She and Jack were married April 7, 1900. In 1900 she lived with her husband, his mother, and his seven-year-old nephew, John London, in a house they were renting at 1130 15th Street in Oakland, CA.
Sep 7, 2023 · When Elizabeth May "Bess" Maddern was born on 13 July 1876, in New Jersey, United States, her father, Henry Thomas Maddern, was 42 and her mother, Melissa Ophelia Jones, was 32. She married John Griffith "Jack London" Chaney on 7 April 1900, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
