After reading her diary and discovering her infidelity with Cecil Maitland
(and not long after the birth of their child), John Rodker
left MB
.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Butts
MB
's affair with Cecil Maitland
, a Scottish writer and critic, lasted from 1920 to February 1925. He died in 1926. MB
was drawn to him because of the delicious states he evoke[d] in...
MB
was already committed to a hedonistic lifestyle which she felt to be justified or even inescapable after the suffering and nihilism produced by the first world war. Through her relationship with Maitland
, she...
Travel
Mary Butts
After separating from her husband, MB
left her daughter Camilla with a friend and went with Maitland
to Paris, before embarking with him on further travels. Throughout the 1920s she moved back and forth...