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Jun 30, 2022 · Financially ruined by the Great Depression, Leslie Tilden Smith died in 1945. Broke and alone, Rhys depended on flickering support from friends and family until she married Leslie’s cousin, Max Hamer, in 1947. Hamer, like Lenglet, was caught in an embezzlement scheme and in 1950 began a two-year sentence at Maidstone Prison.
She returned to England, alone, and married her second husband, the literary agent Leslie Tilden Smith, who had, ironically enough, been recommended to her by Ford.
Leslie Tilden Smith became Rhys’s agent in 1926, when her union with Lenglet was disintegrating; he found her accommodations in London and paid her rent, and by 1928 she had moved in with him. He was the sort of Englishman she liked best: well bred, privately educated, eager to come to her aid.
Part One: Leslie (1931-1945) Leslie Tilden-Smith was Rhys's literary agent from 1928 and second husband from 1934 until his death in 1945. Part Two: Max (1946-1950) Max Hamer was Tilden-Smith's cousin and Rhys's third husband after Tilden-Smith's death, until Hamer's death in 1966. Part Three: Maryvonne (1951-1956)
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May 16, 2022 · Her Belgian first husband, Jean Lenglet, married her bigamously. Her second, Leslie Tilden-Smith, died suddenly. Her third, Max Hamer, was sent to prison for fraud. Rhys had two children with Lenglet.
Aug 21, 2009 · Rhys's second husband, the literary agent Leslie Tilden Smith, devoted himself to her career. When he died, his cousin Max Hamer married her; they were living in penury when out of nowhere an ...
Leslie Tilden-Smith was a literary agent, the Oxford-educated son of an Anglican cleric. Rhys had acquired another caretaker; they lived together, and Jean was free to write while Leslie edited, typed, handled contracts and Rhys' business affairs. He also cooked, cleaned, and did the laundry.
