Complex sentence: In 1904 Hodgkins became engaged to an Englishman, T. Boughton Wilby, after the briefest of courtships, and planned to go overseas to marry him, but the engagement was broken off at the last moment for unknown reasons.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1904 Hodgkins became engaged to an Englishman, T. Boughton Wilby, after the briefest of courtships and planned to go overseas to marry him. The engagement was broken off at the last moment for unknown reasons.