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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing James Joyce
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. Oxford University Press.
Parker, Alan. James Joyce: A Bibliography of His Writings, Critical Material, and Miscellanea. F. W. Faxon.
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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.
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, No. 1, pp. 43-7.
46
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
310
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...
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...
Textual Features H. D.
This issue opened with an editorial by Dora Marsden . It contained poetry by Aldington, HD, F. S. Flint , D. H. Lawrence , Marianne Moore , and May Sinclair and prose articles giving the...
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...
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.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge.
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