Alida Monro

Standard Name: Monro, Alida
Used Form: Alida Klementaski

Connections

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death Charlotte Mew
The day before she died, CM gave Alida Monro a cherished copy of her poem Fin de Fête, the one transcribed in the British Library by Thomas Hardy .
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
xii
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Mew
CM lived with her sister and mother for most of her life. According to her friend Alida Monro , the siblings treated their mother as if she were a naughty child,
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
ix
sometimes sending her...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Mew
CM attended a Poetry Bookshop reading in Bloomsbury at the invitation of Alida Klementaski (later wife of Harold Monro ), who greatly admired her work.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
46
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
vii
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
310
Leisure and Society Charlotte Mew
Alida Monro describes CM as very small (under five feet tall) and slight. She always wore a double-breasted tweed jacket with a velvet collar. She smoked hand-rolled cigarettes in a long cigarette holder, and often...
Material Conditions of Writing Charlotte Mew
CM 's literary output was scant: she published only about sixty poems, many of them posthumously. According to her friend Alida Monro , she attributed her small output to the difficulties of domestic life...
Publishing Charlotte Mew
The printing firm usually employed by the Bookshop could not print the volume because one of their compositors, a Methodist, refused to set the poem Madeleine in Church, which he considered to be blasphemous...
Publishing Anna Wickham
Critic Joy Grant writes of AW 's relations with her editor, Harold Monro , in a positive light, stressing Wickham's gratitude to Monro for not seeing her poems as symptoms of a disordered mind
qtd. in
Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
123
Publishing Charlotte Mew
CM 's Collected Poems were posthumously published by Duckworth , with a memoir by Alida Monro .
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 121
Reception Charlotte Mew
Alida Klementaski (later Monro) read the poem and was electrified
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
vii
by it. She immediately committed it to memory, and a couple of years later repeated it to Harold Monro , editor of the newly...
Textual Production Charlotte Mew
The dramatic version cannot be dated, but was completed by 1913.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
44
It did not reach production in CM 's lifetime, but the BBC presented it in 1953 as a half-hour radio drama.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
309
According...
Textual Production Charlotte Mew
CM 's manuscripts of poems and short stories and her unpublished letters are held in the British Library and in the Lockwood Memorial Library at SUNY Buffalo . The librarians at Buffalo are said to...

Timeline

1 January 1913: Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at...

Writing climate item

1 January 1913

Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in Bloomsbury.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp.
142-9
Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
60, 81-3

Texts

Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
Mew, Charlotte, and Alida Monro. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew. Gerald Duckworth, 1953.
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Introductory Note”. The Rambling Sailor, Poetry Bookshop, 1929, pp. 7-8.
Mew, Charlotte, and Alida Monro. The Rambling Sailor. Poetry Bookshop, 1929.