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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Williams-Ellis divided her text into five sections according to audience, respectively written For All, For Philosophers, For Missionaries, For Critics, and For Readers. The last section consists of short studies... |
Wealth and Poverty | Harriet Shaw Weaver | During 1914, the printing of the journal cost HSW
£337, while subscription had brought in only £37. She routinely sank £300 a year in the journal. Gradually she was forced to cut printing orders, switch... |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Elizabeth Moody
engagingly converts Sappho
into a contemporary in Sappho Burns her Books and Cultivates the Culinary Arts, 1798. Jay, Peter, and Caroline Lewis. Sappho Through English Poetry. Anvil Press Poetry. 98 |
Publishing | Dora Marsden | Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West
acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle |
Textual Features | Dora Marsden | A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Assistant editors were Richard Aldington
and Leonard Compton-Rickett
, and later H. D.
(when Aldington went to war in June 1916) and T. S. Eliot
(from July 1917). Contributors of creative work and critical reviews... |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | But DM
's involvement with The Egoist began to slacken shortly after its début. This was in part because of her distance from London (in Southport), her desire to focus on her philosophical writing... |
Literary responses | Mina Loy | ML
's free verse and sexual explicitness caused a sensation in New York. In his 1925 autobiography, Alfred Kreymborg
remembered that [d]etractors shuddered at Mina Loy's subject-matter and derided her elimination of punctuation marks... |
Friends, Associates | D. H. Lawrence | Several women writers were numbered among DHL
's friends and acquaintances: Amy Lowell
, Katherine Mansfield
, Anna Wickham
, Lady Cynthia Asquith
, Carrington
, Brett
, Catherine Carswell
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | H. D.
and her husband, Richard Aldington
, were introduced to D. H.
and Frieda Lawrence
at a dinner party and poetry reading hosted by Amy Lowell
. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin. 92 |
Textual Production | H. D. | During her London years HD also did important work (with Amy Lowell
and Richard Aldington
) on the three Imagist anthologies of 1915-17, and with the latter she edited the Poets' Translation Series for the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | Feinstein follows Lawrence from his early aspiration to be a spokesman for women to his later mounting rage against women's desires to use their minds and express their individuality. Feinstein, Elaine. Lawrence’s Women. HarperCollins. 9 |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | A letter from Bryher
to Amy Lowell
began a transatlantic correspondence between the two writers; this dialogue was sparked by Bryher's admiration for Imagist poems composed and collected by Lowell. Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press. 35 and n8, 251 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bryher | Following Amy Lowell
's suggestion, Bryher
read and was profoundly impressed by H. D.
's poetry collection Sea Garden, 1916. In July, Bryher wrote H. D. an appreciative letter that prompted their first meeting. Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins. 187-8 Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press. 35 |