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...
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...
Leisure and Society
Mary Butts
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...