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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Bryher | A letter from Bryher
to Amy Lowell
began a transatlantic correspondence between the two writers; this dialogue was sparked by Bryher's admiration for Imagist poems composed and collected by Lowell. Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press. 35 and n8, 251 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bryher | Following Amy Lowell
's suggestion, Bryher
read and was profoundly impressed by H. D.
's poetry collection Sea Garden, 1916. In July, Bryher wrote H. D. an appreciative letter that prompted their first meeting. Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins. 187-8 Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press. 35 |
Textual Production | Bryher | As W. Bryher, Bryher
published a 48-page pamphlet, Amy Lowell
: A Critical Appreciation. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 104 Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press. 218-9 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Leisure and Society | Bryher | Publishing between 1914 and 1920, Bryher wrote through a range of names, from Annie Winifred Ellerman
, through A. W. Ellerman, Winifred Bryher, and W. Bryher, to, finally, Bryher. Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, http://Rutherford HSS. 179 |
Reception | Bryher | Bryher remained especially satisfied with her Review notice on Amy Lowell
's Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1917), which, she writes, was incoherent with enthusiasm . . . but I am still inordinately proud that... |
Textual Features | Bryher | As Amy Lowell
notes in her preface to Development, Nancy's literary growth is both shaped and evidenced by her engagement with modern French poets and Imagist principles. Of to the latter Lowell writes that... |
Textual Features | Bryher | This collection marked Bryher's entry into modernism. Charting the constantly recurring, specifically Greek images, colours, and other motifs in Bryher's poems, Diana Collecott
links them to H. D.
's poetry, especially The Contest and Hipparchia... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | Feinstein follows Lawrence from his early aspiration to be a spokesman for women to his later mounting rage against women's desires to use their minds and express their individuality. Feinstein, Elaine. Lawrence’s Women. HarperCollins. 9 |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | H. D.
and her husband, Richard Aldington
, were introduced to D. H.
and Frieda Lawrence
at a dinner party and poetry reading hosted by Amy Lowell
. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin. 92 |
Textual Production | H. D. | During her London years HD also did important work (with Amy Lowell
and Richard Aldington
) on the three Imagist anthologies of 1915-17, and with the latter she edited the Poets' Translation Series for the... |
Friends, Associates | D. H. Lawrence | Several women writers were numbered among DHL
's friends and acquaintances: Amy Lowell
, Katherine Mansfield
, Anna Wickham
, Lady Cynthia Asquith
, Carrington
, Brett
, Catherine Carswell
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell |
Literary responses | Mina Loy | ML
's free verse and sexual explicitness caused a sensation in New York. In his 1925 autobiography, Alfred Kreymborg
remembered that [d]etractors shuddered at Mina Loy's subject-matter and derided her elimination of punctuation marks... |
Publishing | Dora Marsden | Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West
acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle |
Textual Features | Dora Marsden | A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Assistant editors were Richard Aldington
and Leonard Compton-Rickett
, and later H. D.
(when Aldington went to war in June 1916) and T. S. Eliot
(from July 1917). Contributors of creative work and critical reviews... |