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Cultural formation | H. D. | HD's interest in spiritualism is perhaps traceable to her Moravian background as well as to the yogi books given to her by Ezra Pound
when she was a teenager. During the Second World War she... |
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, 1973. 155 |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Education | H. D. | HD withdrew from Bryn Mawr for health reasons after suffering an emotional breakdown. Other factors too may have played a part: she was in the midst of a turbulent relationship with Ezra Pound
and she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | Her accounts of her marriage were disingenuous in several respects. She described it as one of those War-marriages between very young people, Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998. 9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad
, Jean Rhys
(Such a louche young woman), Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 102 |
Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | H. D.
and Ezra Pound
were introduced at a Hallowe'en party in Pennsylvania. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | W. B. Yeats | Within a few months of proposing marriage to Maud Gonne
's daughter Iseult
(as he had formerly proposed to to Gonne herself) WBY
married (on 20 October 1917, at the age of fifty-two) Georgie Hyde-Lees |
Fictionalization | Florence Farr | |
Fictionalization | Natalie Clifford Barney | In 1912-13, NCB
's fame was bolstered by a series of essays addressed to her by Remy de Gourmont
entitled Lettres à l'Amazone, published in the Paris literary magazine Mercure de France. Rood, Karen Lane, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 4. Gale Research, 1980. 25 |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | HD's estrangement from Pound
continued for years after the end of the Second World War. Then, despite the disapproval of friends such as Bryher
and Sylvia Beach
, she renewed contact with him in 1960... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | West became a regular contributor to The Freewoman and a prominent member of the London branch of the Freewoman Discussion Circle
. She also played central roles in the revival and transformation of The Freewoman... |