Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Ezra Pound
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Standard Name: Pound, Ezra
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, American poet, critic, editor, translator, and key figure in the literary modernist movement, lived in London from 1908 to 1921, in Paris from 1921 to 1924, and then in Italy until the end of the Second World War. His vociferous, antisemitic support for Italian fascism earned him thirteen years in a US hospital for the criminally insane. He worked from 1917 until near the end of his life on his massive and generically multiple epic poem Cantos, which he published in serial fragments.
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
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Once settled in a larger house more suited to entertaining, CADS
renewed old friendships and made new ones with luminaries in London literary society, including Beatrice Harraden
, Arthur Waugh
, H. G. Wells
,...
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Mary Butts
MB
met Ezra Pound
(accounts differ as to whether she had met him already). He not only became her close friend but also promoted her writing both before and after her death.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998.
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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...
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
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With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud
Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
McAlmon hosted a dinner party which Weaver attended together with Djuna Barnes
, William Bird
, sculptor Thelma Wood
, and Ezra Pound
, who mortified her by teasing her, quite without justification, about her...
Friends, Associates
Nancy Cunard
Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Bishop
Important among EB
's friendships were those with Marianne Moore
(whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but...
Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bottome
PB
was introduced to Ezra Pound
(as half American) by May Sinclair
at one of her parties in London.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
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Friends, Associates
Phyllis Bottome
When PB
and Lislie
spent the winter in Rome, Ezra Pound
introduced Bottome to H. D.
.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often...
DB
arrived in Paris with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound
and James Joyce
, and she soon came into contact with a great number of the US expatriates living there at this time, including...