Bryher

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Standard Name: Bryher
Birth Name: Annie Winifred Ellerman
Self-constructed Name: Bryher
Indexed Name: A. W. Ellerman
Indexed Name: Winifred Bryher
Indexed Name: W. Bryher
Nickname: Dolly
Nickname: Boy
In considering the paucity of credit given to Bryher for her patronage of the influential Contact Press , critic Jayne Marek describes her as an invisible woman.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky.
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Bryher is even less recognized as a writer than a patron: most of her texts are now out of print and have received little critical attention. Her novels, poems, memoirs, and criticism, together spanning much of the twentieth century, form a significant contribution to the development of Anglo-American modernism, particularly through their French and Imagist influences, and their explorations of topics including women's education, gender mutability, psychoanalysis, and film technology.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Residence Natalie Clifford Barney
While another of the Paris lesbian circle, Bryher , devoted energy and resources to helping Jews and socialists escape from the countries under totalitarian rule, NCB and Romaine Brooks cared nothing for the fate of...
Textual Production Sylvia Beach
In 1937, SB and Adrienne Monnier translated Bryher 's Paris 1900.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
380
Bryher thanked SB by saying it was the only writing of mine I have ever read with pleasure thanks to your translation.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
380
Publishing Sylvia Beach
Paul Valéry asked SB to translate his essay Littérature; it was later published in Bryher 's Life and Letters Today, under the signature of Sylvia Beach and the Author.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
333
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
160
Friends, Associates Sylvia Beach
Friends and patrons Dorothy Richardson and Bryher were tireless in recruiting women subscribers to sustain Shakespeare and Company .
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
361
Wealth and Poverty Sylvia Beach
SB struggled for most of her life to be financially independent. At an early date she wrote: I must get at something profitable. My uselessness utterly depresses me.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
32
Her career as a bookshop owner...
Friends, Associates Mary Butts
In Paris in the 1920s MB engaged with other modernist writers and literary people, including James Joyce , Djuna Barnes , Robert McAlmon , Ford Madox Ford , Bryher , Peggy Guggenheim , Ethel Colburn Mayne
Friends, Associates Ivy Compton-Burnett
The shifting, erratic, oddly mixed wartime social scene
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
166
enabled ICB to become more outgoing, and she established friendships with H. D. , Bryher , and Una Pope-Hennessy . She called HD Mrs Aldington...
Dedications Lettice Cooper
LC dedicated to her fellow novelist Bryher her novel Late in the Afternoon, set in Tuscany, London, and an industrial town in northern England.
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Residence Margiad Evans
ME and her husband, Michael Williams , travelled to Ireland on money anonymously supplied as a literary benefaction by Bryher .
Evans, Margiad. A Ray of Darkness. Arthur Barker.
43
Reception Margiad Evans
ME heard that she was to receive a sum of money which an anonymous benefactor (whom she obliquely identifies as Bryher ) awarded each year to a little-known writer to fund holiday travel.
Evans, Margiad. A Ray of Darkness. Arthur Barker.
43
Friends, Associates Margiad Evans
Though a lover of solitude, ME was also sociable. She made lifelong friendships on her stay in Brittany at the age of seventeen. While staying with Mrs Lloyd-Jones she met Professor Ifor Williams and his...
Wealth and Poverty Margiad Evans
Money was always tight throughout ME 's life. She began her writing career relying on her father's tiny pension to supplement her earnings from intermittent paid work, and it was a problem for her when...
Friends, Associates Margiad Evans
A young poet whom she calls B—, a descendant of Percy Shelley (and therefore presumably of Mary Shelley too), whom she had known since his boyhood, moved from his own cottage to stay with ME
Dedications Margiad Evans
She wrote this book, at least the later parts of it, while she was actually going through the bodily experiences—epilepsy, pregnancy—that it describes.
Evans, Margiad. A Ray of Darkness. Arthur Barker.
129, 133
The dedication reads: This manuscript is hopefully and precociously dedicated...
Textual Production Margiad Evans
Most of her manuscripts (a sizeable collection) are in the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth. Her letters to Bryher , with their enclosures—drawings, the Irish journal, a manuscript of A Ray of Darkness...

Timeline

July 1927: Close up. Devoted to the Art of Film began...

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July 1927

Close up. Devoted to the Art of Film began monthly publication in Territet near Montreux, Switzerland.

December 1933: Close up. Devoted to the Art of Films, edited...

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December 1933

Close up. Devoted to the Art of Films, edited by Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher , ceased publication.

September 1935: Life and Letters To-Day, edited by Robert...

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September 1935

Life and Letters To-Day, edited by Robert Herring and Bryher , produced its first quarterly issue in London.

1950: Life and Letters To-day, edited by Robert...

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1950

Life and Letters To-day, edited by Robert Herring and Bryher , ceased publication in London.

Texts

Bryher,. Amy Lowell: A Critical Appreciation. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1918.
Bryher,. Arrow Music. J. E. Bumpus, 1922.
Bryher,. Beowulf. Pantheon, 1956.
Bryher, and Amy Lowell. Bryher: Two Novels: Development; and, Two Selves. Editor Winning, Joanne, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
Bryher,. Civilians. Pool, 1927.
Bryher,. Development. Constable, 1920.
Bryher,. “Hellenics”. Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, Vol.
17
, No. 3, pp. 136-7.
Sitwell, Edith, and Bryher. “Introduction”. The Fourteenth of October, Collins, 1954, pp. 3-5.
Bryher,. “Introduction”. Bryher: Two Novels: Development; and, Two Selves, edited by Joanne Winning, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, p. v - xli.
Valéry, Paul, and Paul Valéry. “Literature”. Life and Letters Today, edited by Bryher, translated by. Sylvia Beach.
Bryher,. Paris 1900. Translators Beach, Sylvia and Adrienne Monnier, Maison des amis des livres, 1938.
Lowell, Amy, and Bryher. “Preface”. Development, Macmillan, 1920, p. ix - xvi.
Bryher,. Region of Lutany. Chapman and Hall, 1914.
Bryher,. The Days of Mars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
Bryher, and Edith Sitwell. The Fourteenth of October. Pantheon, 1952.
Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962.
Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963.
Bion,. The Lament for Adonis. Translator Bryher, A. L. Humphreys, 1918.
Bryher,. Two Selves. Contact Press, 1923.
Bryher,. West. Jonathan Cape, 1925.
Bryher,. “What Shall You Do in the War?”. Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, edited by James Donald et al., Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 306-9.