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 this time MB
became acquainted with Wyndham Lewis
and Ford Madox Ford
as well as Hamnett
and Fry
. She was a good friend of the strong feminist Wilma Meikle
.
Blondel, Nathalie, and Nathalie Blondel. “Foreword”. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life: A Biography, McPherson, p. xv - xix.
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“Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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's reviews, combined with his visibly privileged lifestyle, did not help his reputation among younger writers (such as those in the Bloomsbury Group
) as a wealthy snob or a philistine. Wyndham Lewis
attacked...