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, 1995.
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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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Textual Production Marianne Moore
In the early 1920s MM was already an influential New York reviewer, who covered such landmark texts as T. S. Eliot 's The Sacred Wood, 1921, Bryher 's first novel, Development, also in...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher , H. D. , Sylvia Beach , Amy Catherine (Jane)
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...
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, 1983.
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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, 1983.
380
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...
Textual Production Marianne Moore
Twenty-four of MM 's Poems were selected, ostensibly without her knowledge, by H. D. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert McAlmon (the latter being her friend Bryher )
qtd. in
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, 1990.
and published through Harriet Shaw Weaver 's Egoist Press
Textual Production Marianne Moore
MM allowed to be published Observations, which she called an American edition,
Moore, Marianne. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Editors Costello, Bonnie et al., Knopf, 1997.
209
somewhat expanded, of the unauthorized Poems issued by H. D. , Bryher , and Robert McAlmon in 1921.
Abbott, Craig S. Marianne Moore: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
9
Theme or Topic Treated in Text H. D.
Like the later End to Torment, this relates its author's attachments to and disaffection from Lawrence and Pound , her (tor)mentors.
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, 1990.
Its material includes the end of HD's marriage and the beginning of her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text H. D.
These date from 1921-2 and (like their successor, HERmione, written in 1927 and published as Her in 1981), are romans à clef. They trace the events of HD's emotional life (she appears as Hermione...
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, 1995, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
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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, 1995, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
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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, 1985.
157
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, 1977.
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