Mary Butts
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Standard Name: Butts, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Franeis Butts
Pseudonym: Mark Drury
Married Name: Mary Franeis Rodker
Married Name: Mary Franeis Atkin
authentic Englishness. Beginning her career as a modernist,
attracted considerable attention and praise (together with controversy) during her lifetime. By the time of her death she was seen primarily as a religious or mystical writer, and after it her writing remained largely neglected until a revival of interest in the 1990s.
published five novels, three collections of short stories, some poems, a memoir, and several essays (one of which denounces the Bloomsbury Group). Her subjects ranged from the Great War and war trauma to history, religion, mysticism, and classical mythology. Her expressions of ecological concern (laments for the destruction of nature and the countryside by hikers and industrialisation) take a conservative, elitist, even racialist stance and set a premium on