Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Ezra Pound
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Standard Name: Pound, Ezra
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, American poet, critic, editor, translator, and key figure in the literary modernist movement, lived in London from 1908 to 1921, in Paris from 1921 to 1924, and then in Italy until the end of the Second World War. His vociferous, antisemitic support for Italian fascism earned him thirteen years in a US hospital for the criminally insane. He worked from 1917 until near the end of his life on his massive and generically multiple epic poem Cantos, which he published in serial fragments.
Ezra Pound
refers to FF
in Canto XXVIII as Loica (i.e. Shaw's Louka): So Loica went out and died there [Ceylon] / After her time in the post-Ibsen
movement.
Pound, Ezra. The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New Directions.
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Several critics believe 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.
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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.
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which was hardly accurate when she was at the time twenty-seven. Rodker...
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),
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.
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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...
Yorke, Liz. Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics, and the Body. Sage.
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Rich enjoyed her time at Radcliffe, though...
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.
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In a will made almost thirty years before she died...
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...
