Dora Marsden

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Standard Name: Marsden, Dora
Birth Name: Dora Marsden
Following a notorious suffrage career, DM founded, edited, and wrote for the highly influential journals The Freewoman, The New Freewoman, and The Egoist. She then wrote several books on the intersections among philosophy, religion, and science. Repeating the pattern of her lifetime, much of the critical attention accorded to Marsden in recent decades has focussed primarily on her early feminist activities and associations, rather than her pursuits in The Egoist or her monographs.
Black and white photograph of Dora Marsden, shown from the shoulders up, with her body turned away from the camera and her face turned to face the viewer. She is wearing a light high-necked dress, with a dark collar. Her hair is dark and pulled into a bun on either side of her head.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
McAlmon hosted a dinner party which Weaver attended together with Djuna Barnes , William Bird , sculptor Thelma Wood , and Ezra Pound , who mortified her by teasing her, quite without justification, about her...
Reception Harriet Shaw Weaver
She thought her own style lame & dull, but editor Dora Marsden liked her straightforward prose.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
73
Of her second review, published on 1 June 1914, Marsden complimented her: you use words very tersely &...
Reception Harriet Shaw Weaver
Marsden , always a supporter of HSW 's writing, called her column an institution, although it was a short-lived one.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
110
Literary historian Jayne E. Marek believes that under HSW 's patronage The New...
Textual Production Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW deposited at the Oxford Philosophical Library her completed manuscript entitled A History of the Concept of Time, a survey of outstanding philosophers from the time of the Greeks onwards.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
400
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
285
She had...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Dora Marsden , then the editor, and Rebecca West launched a much-needed subscription campaign in order to re-establish the journal on sound financial footing after it had run into trouble for publishing allegedly immoral contents....
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Dora Marsden , the journal's founder-editor, was concentrating on writing her philosophical book and suggested in March 1914 that HSW should take over the job of editor. She eased Weaver into the position by introducing...
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
As editor, HSW attempted to recruit Storm Jameson for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D. , whom she...
Occupation Rebecca West
RW landed her first job as a journalist, as editor and writer for Dora Marsden 's feminist periodical, The Freewoman.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
17-18
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Wickham
Several poems in this collection are self-reflexive, taking poetic form itself as their subject. In The Egoist (a poem which shares its title with Dora Marsden 's journal The Egoist, associated with Pound and...

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