She was born Helen Pearl Humphry in St John's Wood, London, on 30 April 1882, the only child of Irish journalist C.E. Humphry (born Charlotte Eliza Graham) and her husband Joseph Alfred Humphry, who managed the advertising department of a newspaper.[1]
Trained by her mother, she began her own journalistic career at the age of 17.[1] As H. Pearl Humphry, she wrote for several magazines and also appeared as Mrs Varden in a production based on Barnaby Rudge.[2]
In 1909, she married fellow journalist George Jeffreys Adam. In 1910, she was invited to visit Galicia by the Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Galicia as part of a press junket for the Lady's Pictorial and Sheffield Daily Telegraph.[3]
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In wartime Paris, Adam wrote for several British newspapers, also publishing an edited collection of International Cartoons of the War (1916) and Paris Sees it Through: A Diary (1914–1919), based on her diaries from the time.[4] Remaining in Paris in the 1920s, she wrote for the Evening Standard, the Observer and the Sunday Times.[5]
In 1924, Adam met Ella Lenglet (Jean Rhys), who tried to sell her some translations of her husband's articles.[6] Adam instead saw potential in Rhys's diary, and invited her to live with the Adams in their Paris flat while she edited Rhys's writing into a novel, Suzy Tells.[5][7] She passed this unpublished manuscript on to Rhys' future mentor Ford Madox Ford, who published an extract of it under the title 'Vienne' (claiming it was 'from the novel Triple Sec'), and suggested that Lenglet adopt the pen name Jean Rhys.[7]
^Hooper, Kirsty (2020). The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession. Oxford University Press. p. 156. ISBN978-1-78962-132-7.
^Martell, Edward, ed. (1978). Who Was Who Among English and European Authors. Vol. I.
^ ab"Papers of Helen Pearl Adam: Overview". LSE Library. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
^Savory, Elaine (2009-04-02). The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN978-0-521-87366-6.
^ abSaunders, Max (2012-09-13). Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: Volume II: The After-War World. OUP Oxford. p. 15. ISBN978-0-19-966835-9.
^Bain, G. S.; Woolven, Gillian B.; Woolven, G. B. (1979-03-29). A Bibliography of Industrial Relations. CUP Archive. p. 103. ISBN978-0-521-21547-3.
^Adam, H. Pearl (Helen Pearl) (1916). International cartoons of the war. University of California Libraries. New York : Dutton.
^Adam, H. Pearl (Helen Pearl) (1919). Paris sees it through; a diary. 1914-1919. University of California Libraries. London, New York : Hodder and Stoughton.
^Adam, George; Adam, Mrs Pearl Humphry (1927). A Book about Paris. J. Cape.
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