Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
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Cultural formation | H. D. | HD's interest in spiritualism is perhaps traceable to her Moravian background as well as to the yogi books given to her by Ezra Pound
when she was a teenager. During the Second World War she... |
death | May Sinclair | She was cremated after her funeral on 18 November at the chapel in Golders Green Cemetery. Her ashes were buried in Hampstead churchyard. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 155 |
Education | H. D. | HD withdrew from Bryn Mawr for health reasons after suffering an emotional breakdown. Other factors too may have played a part: she was in the midst of a turbulent relationship with Ezra Pound
and she... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | H. D.
and Ezra Pound
were introduced at a Hallowe'en party in Pennsylvania. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | W. B. Yeats | Within a few months of proposing marriage to Maud Gonne
's daughter Iseult
(as he had formerly proposed to to Gonne herself) WBY
married (on 20 October 1917, at the age of fifty-two) Georgie Hyde-Lees |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | Her accounts of her marriage were disingenuous in several respects. She described it as one of those War-marriages between very young people, Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998. 9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad
, Jean Rhys
(Such a louche young woman), Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 102 |
Fictionalization | Florence Farr | |
Fictionalization | Natalie Clifford Barney | In 1912-13, NCB
's fame was bolstered by a series of essays addressed to her by Remy de Gourmont
entitled Lettres à l'Amazone, published in the Paris literary magazine Mercure de France. Rood, Karen Lane, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 4. Gale Research, 1980. 25 |
Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | In ParisAW
also met Sylvia Beach
and Djuna Barnes
, among others. Hepburn, James, and Anna Wickham. “Preface”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith and Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, p. xix - xxiii. xxii Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. 7 - 11. 10 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bishop | Important among EB
's friendships were those with Marianne Moore
(whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but... |
Friends, Associates | Phyllis Bottome | PB
was introduced to Ezra Pound
(as half American) by May Sinclair
at one of her parties in London. Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. 381-2 |