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
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW visited Paris with Bryher , H. D. , and Richard McAlmon . While there she met Sylvia Beach .
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
244
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW and Bryher were good friends who collaborated on publication projects (Marianne Moore 's Poems, H. D. 's Hymen, and others) and travelled together.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
177, 244-6, 465
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
RS reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and other periodicals. She was employed by Hodder and Stoughton to choose the titles for their Library of Great Historical Novels series (in which she included Bryher 's...
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
In Paris ES frequented Sylvia Beach 's bookshop. She saw more than before of Gertrude Stein , whom she liked for her personal qualities but called the last writer whom any other writer in the...
Occupation Edith Sitwell
It was well attended by women writers. Ivy Compton-Burnett and Bryher were there, and H. D. and Vita Sackville-West were among the other readers on the evening's programme. Dorothy Wellesley was to have read also...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
She had begun writing poetry again after about a year of war, having written none since Gold Coast Customs. The best-known poem in this volume, Still Falls the Rain (sometimes called Song of the...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
John Lehmann and Derek Parker had published an earlier collection with the same title in 1970, but it was less valuable than it could have been because Edith's surviving brother, Sacheverell, decreed that all family...
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
DR contributed over twenty essays and reviews, including the regular column, Continuous Performance, to Bryher 's avant-garde film magazine Close Up.
Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen.
189-90
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
217
Friends, Associates Dorothy Richardson
In June 1923, DR met and began a friendship with Bryher , who went on to provide her with various kinds of support for the rest of her life. Gloria Fromm describes Bryher as a...
Travel Dorothy Richardson
Their trip was financed by Bryher , who also invited them to stay with her and H. D. at Bryher's villa on the shore of Lake Geneva for a month.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
157-8
Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Richardson
DR also accepted financial assistance from friends and other sources. Early in their friendship Bryher established a trust fund that yielded Richardson £250 annually. She also committed £120, tax free, to Richardson for each year...
Health Dorothy Richardson
Macmillan was an American who had intended to go into the priesthood, but left an Episcopal seminary to come to England when he found himself unable to continue his vocation. By the time DR went...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
DR first read Proust (Swann's Way) in December 1922. She devoted much time to her reading and thinking about Proust, and relished his writing for being a thousand things at once, with the...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
DR thought less of Woolf 's writing, and disliked juxtapositions of their work by critics. In 1937 she refused requests from Life and Letters Today and the London Mercury to review Woolf's The Years because...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothy Richardson
Though DR did not meet her future friend and supporter Bryher until several months after the publication of Revolving Lights in early 1923, critics have noted many points of thematic and structural similarity between Richardson's...

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.