Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Bryher
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Standard Name: Bryher
Birth Name: Annie Winifred Ellerman
Self-constructed Name: Bryher
Indexed Name: A. W. Ellerman
Indexed Name: Winifred Bryher
Indexed Name: W. Bryher
Nickname: Dolly
Nickname: Boy
In considering the paucity of credit given to Bryher for her patronage of the influential Contact Press
, critic Jayne Marek
describes her as an invisible woman.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky.
116
Bryher is even less recognized as a writer than a patron: most of her texts are now out of print and have received little critical attention. Her novels, poems, memoirs, and criticism, together spanning much of the twentieth century, form a significant contribution to the development of Anglo-American modernism, particularly through their French and Imagist influences, and their explorations of topics including women's education, gender mutability, psychoanalysis, and film technology.
Most of her manuscripts (a sizeable collection) are in the National Library of Wales
at Aberystwyth. Her letters to Bryher
, with their enclosures—drawings, the Irish journal, a manuscript of A Ray of Darkness...
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
380
Bryher thanked SB
by saying it was the only writing of mine I have ever read with pleasure thanks to your translation.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
380
Textual Production
Dorothy Richardson
The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher
, H. D.
, Sylvia Beach
, Amy Catherine (Jane)
Textual Features
H. D.
HD's vers libre style here is much like that of her previous volume, but with this collection she embarked on giving a voice to mythical, mostly semi-divine and mostly female, personages from ancient Greece: not...
Residence
Margiad Evans
ME
and her husband, Michael Williams
, travelled to Ireland on money anonymously supplied as a literary benefaction by Bryher
.
Evans, Margiad. A Ray of Darkness. Arthur Barker.
43
Residence
H. D.
This therefore was when, after living in London throughout World War Two, HD and Bryher
took up their together-and-apart life in Switzerland.
Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin.
340
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. H.D.: The Career of That Struggle. Indiana University Press.
xx
Residence
Natalie Clifford Barney
While another of the Paris lesbian circle, Bryher
, devoted energy and resources to helping Jews and socialists escape from the countries under totalitarian rule, NCB
and Romaine Brooks
cared nothing for the fate of...
Residence
H. D.
The three women travelled through England and France, meeting musician Walter Rummel
in Paris and Ezra Pound's literary circle in London. HD was persuaded to stay there by her old friend Pound, who had...
Reception
Margiad Evans
ME
heard that she was to receive a sum of money which an anonymous benefactor (whom she obliquely identifies as Bryher
) awarded each year to a little-known writer to fund holiday travel.
Evans, Margiad. A Ray of Darkness. Arthur Barker.
43
Reception
H. D.
Before this book was published, Marianne Moore
expressed great eagerness to see it, and Bryher
's preface to it.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky.
163
Reception
Dorothy Richardson
DR
first read Proust
(Swann's Way) in December 1922. She devoted much time to her reading and thinking about Proust, and relished his writing for being a thousand things at once, with the...
Reception
Dorothy Richardson
DR
thought less of Woolf
's writing, and disliked juxtapositions of their work by critics. In 1937 she refused requests from Life and Letters Today and the London Mercury to review Woolf's The Years because...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
DR
contributed over twenty essays and reviews, including the regular column, Continuous Performance, to Bryher
's avant-garde film magazine Close Up.
Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen.
189-90
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
217
Publishing
H. D.
HD's work also featured in the pages of Margaret Anderson
's and Jane Heap
's The Little Review and in the Dial, whose editor, Marianne Moore
, gave specific attention to establishing her reputation...
Publishing
H. D.
During 1927-33 HD contributed to the avant-garde, influential film magazine Close Up: Devoted to the Art of Films, which Bryher
funded and of which Kenneth Macpherson
was the official editor. It had a temperate...
