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.
Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press
. The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the...
politics
Virginia Woolf
Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be...
Intertextuality and Influence
Virginia Woolf
Yet, though her voice (and her social and political views) were and would remain quite different from theirs, she was keenly attentive to the works of male contemporaries who were, like her, working to create...
Material Conditions of Writing
Virginia Woolf
The Years, then, descends with The Pargiters from Professions for Women. VW
was writing this book in the mid 1930s at a time when her now established reputation came violently under attack, often...
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...
Publishing
Rebecca West
RW
published an early story, Indissoluble Matrimony, in the first issue of Wyndham Lewis
's Blast.
The issue is dated 20 June 1914, but was not actually published until 2 July.
West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA.
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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
Leisure and Society
Rebecca West
The pencil portrait that Wyndham Lewis
exhibited of Rebecca West
in 1932 caused Walter Sickert
to call him (in a telegram) the greatest portraitist of this or any other time.
Campbell, Peter. “At the National Portrait Gallery”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 17, p. 12.
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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),
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...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
The Egoist Press
went on to publish Dora Marsden's The Definition of the Godhead, Eliot
's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Pound
's Dialogues of Fontenelle, Lewis
's Tarr,...
Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
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
Gertrude Stein
It was John Lane
and Roger Fry
who introduced them to the Bloomsbury circle. The trip did not result in a publishing contract, as GS
had hoped, but it did advance her reputation. The next...
Literary responses
Gertrude Stein
Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
68
H. G. Wells
read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
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,...
