Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
The Egoist serialised JJ
's autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: the serialisation began during the brief editorship of Dora Marsden
.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Parker, Alan. James Joyce: A Bibliography of His Writings, Critical Material, and Miscellanea. F. W. Faxon, 1948.
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Publishing
Charlotte Mew
CM
published a poem, The Fête, in Dora Marsden
's The Egoist.
This is not the same poem as Fin de Fête.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
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Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
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Reception
Harriet Shaw Weaver
She thought her own style lame & dull, but editor Dora Marsden
liked her straightforward prose.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
110
Literary historian Jayne E. Marek
believes that under HSW
's patronage The New...
Residence
Harriet Shaw Weaver
From August 1923 to 1931, HSW
rented accommodation next door to Dora Marsden
's converted cottage named Seldom Seen, at Glenridding in Westmorland. HSW
lived there for more than six months each year, doing...
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.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
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Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
285
She had...
Textual Production
Mary Gawthorpe
MG
's name appeared as co-editor (after somewhat fraught negotiations with Dora Marsden
) on The Freewoman, whose first issue appeared on 23 November 1911.
Violence
Mary Gawthorpe
MG
, who was involved with Dora Marsden
in impeding Winston Churchill
's election rallies in Southport, received grave internal injuries when she was struck by one of the stewards.
qtd. in
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
