Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11.
9-10
Richard Aldington
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Standard Name: Aldington, Richard
Used Form: R. A.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | AW
frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern. Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 26 |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
became The Egoist's editor as well as its financial backer, with a staff of one: Richard Aldington
, assistant editor. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 87, 104 |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Shaw Weaver | As editor, HSW
attempted to recruit Storm Jameson
for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D.
, whom she... |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | Priced at less than sixpence, the pamphlets were reprints from The Egoist. Titles include H. D.
's Choruses from Iphigenia in Aulis, Aldington
's Latin Poems of the Renaissance, F. S. Flint |
| Friends, Associates | May Sinclair | On her visit to the USA, MS
became a warm friend of Annie Fields
and Sarah Orne Jewett
. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 97 |
| death | May Sinclair | She was cremated after her funeral on 18 November at the chapel in Golders Green Cemetery. Her ashes were buried in Hampstead churchyard. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 155 |
| Literary responses | May Sinclair | Richard Aldington
called the review of H. D. charming. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 198 |
| Textual Production | May Sinclair | Four months later the same journal (which had already carried her article on Ezra Pound
) printed her review essay on Richard Aldington
's poetry. |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Some of Richardson's readers considered that she, like Joyce
, focused more than necessary on the seamier details of life. Reviewers were not altogether impressed by this novel. Reviewing Richardson again in the Athenæum in... |
| 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 Features | Dora Marsden | While Marsden was away from London and often concerned with her own work on egoist and linguistic philosophy, these new contributors made a growing impact on the journal. Ezra Pound soon had full authority over... |
| Textual Features | Dora Marsden | Marsden was neither unaware nor entirely appreciative of Pound's intellectual programme or his professional ethics. She told Weaver
in a letter of November 1913 (after the journal had again been relaunched with a new name)... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | In the last issue of The New Freewoman, Pound
, Aldington
, Huntley Carter
, Allen Upward
, and Reginald Kauffman
published an open letter beginning, We, the undersigned men of letters who are... |
| 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 | Formerly stored in a wicker trunk at the home of her niece Elaine Dyson Bate, DM
's papers are now at Princeton University
. Her collection contains manuscripts, papers, and letters to and from Rebecca West |
Timeline
1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...
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1907
Alfred Richard Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, pp. 33-5. 34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1928-9: Historian A. J. P. Taylor notes that many...
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1928-9
Historian A. J. P. Taylor
notes that many influential books on the horrors of the First World War appeared during these years.
1929: In the Preface to his novel Death of a Hero,...
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1929
In the Preface to his novelDeath of a Hero, Richard Aldington
noted how he was required by his publishers to remove what they considered objectionable
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin.
83
1929: As well as Richard Aldington's Death of a...
Writing climate item
1929
As well as Richard Aldington
's Death of a Hero, this year saw publication of Erich Maria Remarque
's All Quiet on the Western Front and Robert Graves
's Goodbye to All That.
Texts
Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Early Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Indiana University Press, 1992, p. Various pages.
Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Later Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Manchester University Press, 1995, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
Sévigné, Marie de. Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends. Editor Aldington, Richard, George Routledge, 1927.