She shared a tombstone with her sister Anne
, to which she had added a line from Dante
's Purgatorio, translated as Cast down the seed of weeping and attend.
qtd. in
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
312
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Mew
CM
was very close to her younger sister Anne
, her only living sibling not confined to an institution. Anne, who bore a striking resemblance to Marie Antoinette
,
Monro, Alida, and Charlotte Mew. “Charlotte Mew—A Memoir”. Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Gerald Duckworth, 1953, p. vii - xx.
ix
worked as a restorer and...
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...
