Vivien Whelpton is a former teacher of English and Media Studies with a special interest in the literature of the First World War. She has written journal articles and monographs in this field. She has an M.A. in War Studies and has conducted tours of the Western Front for several years. Her first volume, Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover (The Lutterworth Press, 2014), was shortlisted for The Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize in 2011.

... To describe Aldington as a complicated individual is an understatement, and to call his relationships with other people complex is equally inadequate. It is one of the strengths of Whelpton's biography that she examines these complexities with great patience, clarity and objectivity... Whelpton is scrupulous in distinguishing between documented fact and fictionalized reconstruction and hypothesis... To read this biography is to be convicted that Aldington still deserves and important place in the history of English literature and literary life of the twentieth century. Vivien Whelpton has thus written a challenging book about an author most publishers still prefer to ignore, and Lutterworth Press is to be congratulated for publishing it

• PART ONE: POET and LOVERChapter One: Bohemia: London 1911 - 1912: Patmore, Pound and H.D.Chapter Two: Family secretsChapter Three: The perfect year: France and Italy, 1912-1913Chapter Four: Triumphs and disappointments: marriage, journalism and war, 1913-1916Chapter Five: The imagist poet: 1912-1916PART TWO: THE SOLDIERChapter Six: Retreat to the country: 1916Chapter Seven: War intervenes: 1916Chapter Eight : To the front and back: 1917Chapter Nine: InterludeChapter Ten : Betrayals: 1917-1918Chapter Eleven: Complications: 1918Chapter Twelve: The poet of war and desirePART THREE: THE EXILEChapter Thirteen: The aftermath: 1919Chapter Fourteen : SeparationChapter Fifteen: Writing to live: 1920-1925Chapter SixteenChapter Seventeen: More betrayals: 1926-1927Chapter Eighteen: The end of the affair: Paris and Port Cros, 1928Chapter Nineteen: The NovelistChapter Twenty: The Eaten HeartChapter Twenty-One: A new life: Brigit and Hilda: 1929

Vivien Whelpton is a former teacher of English and Media Studies with a special interest in the literature of the First World War. She has written journal articles and monographs in this field. She has an M.A. in War Studies and has conducted tours of the Western Front for several years. Her first volume, Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover (The Lutterworth Press, 2014), was shortlisted for The Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize in 2011.

... To describe Aldington as a complicated individual is an understatement, and to call his relationships with other people complex is equally inadequate. It is one of the strengths of Whelpton's biography that she examines these complexities with great patience, clarity and objectivity... Whelpton is scrupulous in distinguishing between documented fact and fictionalized reconstruction and hypothesis... To read this biography is to be convicted that Aldington still deserves and important place in the history of English literature and literary life of the twentieth century. Vivien Whelpton has thus written a challenging book about an author most publishers still prefer to ignore, and Lutterworth Press is to be congratulated for publishing it

• PART ONE: POET and LOVERChapter One: Bohemia: London 1911 - 1912: Patmore, Pound and H.D.Chapter Two: Family secretsChapter Three: The perfect year: France and Italy, 1912-1913Chapter Four: Triumphs and disappointments: marriage, journalism and war, 1913-1916Chapter Five: The imagist poet: 1912-1916PART TWO: THE SOLDIERChapter Six: Retreat to the country: 1916Chapter Seven: War intervenes: 1916Chapter Eight : To the front and back: 1917Chapter Nine: InterludeChapter Ten : Betrayals: 1917-1918Chapter Eleven: Complications: 1918Chapter Twelve: The poet of war and desirePART THREE: THE EXILEChapter Thirteen: The aftermath: 1919Chapter Fourteen : SeparationChapter Fifteen: Writing to live: 1920-1925Chapter SixteenChapter Seventeen: More betrayals: 1926-1927Chapter Eighteen: The end of the affair: Paris and Port Cros, 1928Chapter Nineteen: The NovelistChapter Twenty: The Eaten HeartChapter Twenty-One: A new life: Brigit and Hilda: 1929