Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company.
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John Rodker
Standard Name: Rodker, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | MB
was married for the first time, in London, to the Jewish poet, publisher, and conscientious objector John Rodker
. Blondel, Nathalie, and Mary Butts. “Introduction”. The Journals of Mary Butts, edited by Nathalie Blondel and Nathalie Blondel, Yale University Press, pp. 1-41. 4 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | After reading her diary and discovering her infidelity with Cecil Maitland
(and not long after the birth of their child), John Rodker
left MB
. Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 96 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | MB
ended this relationship after she met the poet John Rodker
while working for the National Council Against Conscription
. Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 3 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce
, focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in... |
| Occupation | Mary Butts | After their marriage, MB
worked with her husband, John Rodker
, running the Ovid Press
. “John Rodker, 1894-1955, Biographical Sketch”. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin: HRC Research. Blondel, Nathalie, and Nathalie Blondel. “Foreword”. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life: A Biography, McPherson, p. xv - xix. xv-xvi |
| politics | Mary Butts | MB
was a pacifist who sympathised strongly with the position of conscientious objectors. Believing that conscription was a sign of the collective insanity that has come over the world, Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company. 6 |
| Publishing | James Joyce | A second edition, for export to England and the United States, was published by John Rodker
for the Egoist Press
in October 1922. |
| Textual Features | Mary Butts | Nick Kralin, one of the central characters of the novel, was modelled on MB
's former husband John Rodker
. The heroine, Felicity Taverner, is already dead at the beginning of the novel. Kralin, a... |
| Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | TSE
published another volume of poetry, titled with the Provençal words Ara Vos Prec, with John Rodker
at the Ovid Press
. Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace. 25-6 Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton. 98 |
| Textual Production | Ella K. Maillart | EKM
's second travel book (published in French as Des Monts Célestes aux Sables Rouges seven months before this) was translated into English by John Rodker
as Turkestan Solo: One Woman's Expedition from the Tien... |
| Textual Production | Ezra Pound | EP
's second volume of cantos, A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 of Ezra Pound, was published in London by John Rodker
. Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1. xxiii |
| Textual Production | Ezra Pound | It was published by John Rodker
's Ovid Press
. |
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Texts
Maillart, Ella K. Turkestan Solo. Translator Rodker, John, Putnam, 1934.