Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Wyndham Lewis
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Standard Name: Lewis, Wyndham
WL
was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit in the art movement known as Vorticism. His political writings included some ill-advised praise of Hitler
during the early 1930s. He also published an autobiography.
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),
Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire
's Candide, Swift
's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde
's The Sphinx, and Twain
's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ada Leverson
AL
's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands.
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago.
239-40
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...
Fictionalization
Dora Carrington
In Wyndham Lewis
's The Apes of God, Carrington is hinted at in Betty Blyth, a doll-like sex therapist.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
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Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, pp. 7-9.
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Fictionalization
Nancy Cunard
NC
was cast as Iris March in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, as Lucy Tantamount in Aldous Huxley
's Point Counter Point, as Baby Bucktrout in Wyndham Lewis
's The Roaring Queen...
Friends, Associates
Marianne Moore
MMmade her modernist debut in New York in November 1915, meeting all the avant-garde.
Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 23, p. 19021.
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Her friendship with Ezra Pound
began by letter in 1918. She had already written a poem titled with his...
Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
As editor, HSW
attempted to recruit Storm Jameson
for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D.
, whom she...
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...
Before meeting James Joyce
but after becoming his patron, HSW
envisaged him as noble and ascetic. She was upset when in 1921 Wyndham Lewis
depicted Joyce to her as a drunken spendthrift. Joyce countered these...
Friends, Associates
Rebecca West
Through them RW
met some important literary figures, including Wyndham Lewis
and contributors to Ford's journal, The English Review.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
34-5
Friends, Associates
H. D.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Later, however, Bloomsbury was attacked as an arrogant, self-regarding, immoral, upper-class clique. D. H. Lawrence
said Keynes and his friends were black beetles, and in Women in Love he attacked the group's aesthetic in...
Timeline
April 1893: The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the...
Writing climate item
April 1893
The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the Fine and Applied Arts was founded this month by Charles Holme
and first edited by Cleeson White
.
1911: The Camden Town Group, a group of experimental...
Building item
1911
The Camden Town Group
, a group of experimental Post-Impressionist British painters influenced by the work of Walter Sickert
, was formed; it excluded women from its membership of sixteen.
: Madame Strindberg opened the Cave of the...
Building item
Summer1912
Madame Strindberg
opened the Cave of the Golden Calf
, an avant-garde night club located in a basement off Regent Street in London. Many notable artists of the day helped decorate the club, especially...
March 1914: Wyndham Lewis formed the Rebel Art Centre,...