Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7. 46
Poetry Bookshop
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | CM
attended a Poetry Bookshop
reading in Bloomsbury at the invitation of Alida Klementaski
(later wife of Harold Monro
), who greatly admired her work. Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx. vii Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 310 |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | CM
refused an invitation to visit Edith Sitwell
after they met at the Bookshop
in 1919. Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol. 24 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7. 46 Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp. 191 |
| Occupation | Anne Stevenson | AS
started, with Antoinette Watley
and Michael Farley
, what she calls a small, doomed publishing company. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2025, Numerous volumes. 9: 285 |
| Publishing | Anna Wickham | Critic Joy Grant
writes of AW
's relations with her editor, Harold Monro
, in a positive light, stressing Wickham's gratitude to Monro for not seeing her poems as symptoms of a disordered mind qtd. in Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. 123 |
| Publishing | Frances Cornford | The Poetry Bookshop
published Frances Cornford
's Spring Morning, with eight small woodcuts by her cousin Gwen Raverat
. “Notice: Spring Morning”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 696, 20 May 1915, p. 172. 172 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Charlotte Mew | The Poetry Bookshop
printed 1,000 copies of the first edition of the collection, which took several years to sell out. Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp. 158, 160 This was a large run for the Poetry Bookshop, which often printed only... |
| Publishing | Frances Cornford | The Poetry Bookshop
published Frances Cornford
's Autumn Midnight, a selection of previously printed poems with wood engravings by Eric Gill
. Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923. 24 |
| Publishing | Frances Cornford | Spring Morning proved to be immensely popular. The Poetry Bookshop
reprinted it in 1918 and issued a new edition in 1923. Woolmer, J. Howard, and Penelope Fitzgerald. The Poetry Bookshop, 1912-1935: A Bibliography. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1988. 22 |
| Publishing | Frances Cornford | The Poetry Bookshop
advertised this book as a companion volume Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923. 24 |
| Reception | Charlotte Mew | Alida Klementaski (later Monro)
read the poem and was electrified Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx. vii |
| Textual Features | Anna Wickham | AW
frankly expresses her frustrations with domestic duties and the disillusionment of married life: By the sacrifice of myself I have attempted to serve three generations of men. I seem to have ruined them all... |
| Textual Production | Anna Wickham | The Little Old House by AW
was published in London by the Poetry Bookshop
. Wickham, Anna, and James Hepburn. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet. Editor Smith, Reginald Donald, Virago Press, 1984. 244 Wickham, Anna. The Little Old House. Poetry Bookshop, 1921. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Mew | CM
published the only collection of poetry to appear in her lifetime, The Farmer's Bride, through the Poetry Bookshop
. Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp. 159 |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Mew | A second collection of CM
's poetry, The Rambling Sailor, was published posthumously by The Poetry Bookshop
. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 308 |
| Textual Production | Michael Field | The Poetry Bookshop
issued A Selection From the Poems of Michael Field in 1923, bringing together pieces from their published poetry collections and plays, such as Underneath the Bough, Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund, Wild... |
Timeline
1 January 1913: Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at...
Writing climate item
1 January 1913
Harold Monro
opened the Poetry Bookshop
at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in Bloomsbury.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp.
142-9
Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
60, 81-3
Texts
Cornford, Frances, and Eric Gill. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923.
Cornford, Frances, and Gwen Raverat. Spring Morning. Poetry Bookshop, 1915.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and William Rothenstein. The Country Child’s Alphabet. Poetry Bookshop, 1924.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and David Michael Jones. The Town Child’s Alphabet. Poetry Bookshop, 1924.
Field, Michael. A Selection From the Poems of Michael Field. Editors Sturgeon, Mary and Thomas Sturge Moore, Poetry Bookshop.
Field, Michael. Deirdre; A Question of Memory; Ras Byzance. Poetry Bookshop, 1918.
Field, Michael. In the Name of Time. Poetry Bookshop, 1919.
Mew, Charlotte. The Farmer’s Bride. Poetry Bookshop, 1916.
Mew, Charlotte, and Alida Monro. The Rambling Sailor. Poetry Bookshop, 1929.
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Introductory Note”. The Rambling Sailor, Poetry Bookshop, 1929, pp. 7-8.
Wickham, Anna. The Contemplative Quarry. Poetry Bookshop, 1915.
Wickham, Anna. The Little Old House. Poetry Bookshop, 1921.