Ethel Colburn Mayne

The publisher's advertisement said this was not everyone's book because of its modern style and subject-matter—a style which was, it added, as much a part of twentieth-century civilisation as the telephone and typewriter. 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

Distraught over her split with Ford , VH was supported by several of her women writer friends, especially Radclyffe Hall , Dorothy Richardson , Ethel Colburn Mayne , May Sinclair , and Rebecca West .

VH 's literary executor was Gerald Henderson , librarian of St Paul's Cathedral . (He was not her first choice: she had approached Dorothy Richardson and Ethel Colburn Mayne .) In 1962, following Henderson's death,...