ML
met the wealthy American Mabel Dodge
in Florence; she found what she called a great salvation
qtd. in
Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
119
in this friendship.
Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
119-20
Loy, Mina. “Introduction and Time-Table”. The Last Lunar Baedeker, edited by Roger L. Conover, Carcanet, 1985, p. xv - lxxix.
lxvi
Friends, Associates
Mina Loy
ML
first met Leo
and Gertrude Stein
and Alice Toklas
at Mabel Dodge
's Florence salon. Mina's and Gertrude's friendship continued for many years, and Mina wrote and spoke about Stein's writing in the 1920s...
Brett, Dorothy. Lawrence and Brett. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1933.
39-40
On the whole, however, she did not pursue literary friendships in the USA. She continued her...
Literary responses
Dorothy Brett
Frieda Lawrence
was less taken with these distinctive qualities—according to Mabel Dodge Luhan
, she denounced the work as pathetic and grossly misrepresentative, even declaring Brett to be deaf in her soul.
qtd. in
Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts, 1985.
219
When Frieda...
Publishing
Dorothy Brett
Like most of her circle DB
was an energetic letter-writer. In 1931 she made a will leaving all of her papers and Lawrence
's in her possession to Alfred Stieglitz
and Georgia O'Keeffe
, but...
Residence
Dorothy Brett
John Middleton Murry
was supposed to accompany them, but in the event did not, and the idea of the community quickly evaporated. They first stayed in Taos with Mabel Dodge Luhan
, who then conveyed...
Textual Production
Mina Loy
ML
wrote her Feminist Manifesto, which she sent to Mabel Dodge
.
Loy, Mina. “Introduction and Notes”. The Lost Lunar Baedeker, edited by Roger L. Conover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
216
Travel
Violet Trefusis
Alice Keppel
purchased in 1924 a villa overlooking Florence, named Ombrellino. It had once been Galileo
's home; contemporary neighbours included Mabel Dodge
and Harold Acton
. By 1934 Ombrellino had become VT
's...