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.
116
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
Family and Intimate relationships H. D.
H. D. and Bryher had their first meeting over tea at HD's wartime home in Cornwall.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
45
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, p. Various pages.
213
Residence H. D.
This therefore was when, after living in London throughout World War Two, HD and Bryher took up their together-and-apart life in Switzerland.
Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin.
340
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. H.D.: The Career of That Struggle. Indiana University Press.
xx
Travel H. D.
H. D. and Bryher departed on a long-anticipated journey to Greece and Crete with Havelock Ellis .
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, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
2
Publishing H. D.
HD's work also featured in the pages of Margaret Anderson 's and Jane Heap 's The Little Review and in the Dial, whose editor, Marianne Moore , gave specific attention to establishing her reputation...
Travel H. D.
With Bryher , H. D. returned to the United States for the first time since she emigrated to England in 1911.
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, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
2-3
Publishing H. D.
During 1927-33 HD contributed to the avant-garde, influential film magazine Close Up: Devoted to the Art of Films, which Bryher funded and of which Kenneth Macpherson was the official editor. It had a temperate...
Travel H. D.
While travelling in Egypt, H. D. , her mother , and Bryher witnessed the opening of the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen or Tutankhamun .
Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins.
157
Textual Features H. D.
HD's vers libre style here is much like that of her previous volume, but with this collection she embarked on giving a voice to mythical, mostly semi-divine and mostly female, personages from ancient Greece: not...
Health H. D.
Already suffering from anaemia and meningitis, H. D. began to be convinced that World War Three had actually begun. Bryher moved her to the Klinik Kusnacht in Zurich, Switzerland.
Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol.
2
, No. 2, pp. 45-70.
53
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
45
Reception H. D.
Before this book was published, Marianne Moore expressed great eagerness to see it, and Bryher 's preface to it.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky.
163
Dedications H. D.
H. D. published with the Egoist Press her poetry volume Hymen, dedicated to her lover Bryher and her daughter, Perdita .
Boughn, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990. University Press of Virginia.
8
Publishing H. D.
Between 1935 and 1950 HD had available as an outlet for her writing Life and Letters To-Day, the new magazine which Bryher established through a merger of Life and Letters with The London Mercury...
Material Conditions of Writing H. D.
H. D. 's aesthetic manifesto, Notes on Thought and Vision, written in July 1919 when she and Bryher visited the Isles of Scilly, was posthumously published with the date of 1982.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Boughn, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990. University Press of Virginia.
75
Dedications H. D.
She dedicated this section to Bryher and Robert Herring , but the second part, written about eighteen months later (following her postwar nervous breakdown) and titled The Guest, to Bryher alone.
Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol.
2
, No. 2, pp. 45-70.
46-7, 53
Residence H. D.
The three women travelled through England and France, meeting musician Walter Rummel in Paris and Ezra Pound's literary circle in London. HD was persuaded to stay there by her old friend Pound, who had...

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