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.
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
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Richardson
In June 1923, DR
met and began a friendship with Bryher
, who went on to provide her with various kinds of support for the rest of her life. Gloria Fromm
describes Bryher as a...
Textual Production
Marianne Moore
Twenty-four of MM
's Poems were selected, ostensibly without her knowledge, by H. D.
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert McAlmon (the latter being her friend Bryher
)
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
MM
allowed to be published Observations, which she called an American edition,
Moore, Marianne. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Editors Costello, Bonnie et al., Knopf.
209
somewhat expanded, of the unauthorized Poems issued by H. D.
, Bryher
, and Robert McAlmon
in 1921.
Abbott, Craig S. Marianne Moore: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press.
9
Education
Marianne Moore
MM
attended the Metzger Institute, the private girls' school where her mother was a teacher,
Moore, Marianne. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Editors Costello, Bonnie et al., Knopf.
3
then took her BA in 1908 at a women's college, Bryn Mawr
in Pennsylvania. She followed that with...
Friends, Associates
Marianne Moore
MM
corresponded with T. S. Eliot
from 1921 until the year before his death. She was a friend of H. D.
and of Bryher
, and her editors believe that every one of her five...
Textual Production
Marianne Moore
In the early 1920s MM
was already an influential New York reviewer, who covered such landmark texts as T. S. Eliot
's The Sacred Wood, 1921, Bryher
's first novel, Development, also in...
Literary responses
Violet Hunt
VH
's biography was warmly received both formally and informally. H. D.
(Hilda Doolittle
) wrote to Hunt from Switzerland on 30 September 1932, imagining [h]ow happy the book must make you! The style...
Travel
H. D.
H. D.
and Bryher
departed on a long-anticipated journey to Greece and Crete with Havelock Ellis
.
Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Later Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Manchester University Press, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
2
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...
Travel
H. D.
With Bryher
, H. D.
returned to the United States for the first time since she emigrated to England in 1911.
Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Later Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Manchester University Press, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
2-3
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...
Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins.
157
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...
Health
H. D.
Already suffering from anaemia and meningitis, H. D.
began to be convinced that World War Three had actually begun. Bryher
moved her to the Klinik Kusnacht
in Zurich, Switzerland.
Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol.
2
, No. 2, pp. 45-70.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
