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
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.
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Literary responses Ethel Mannin
Although controversial in its views on progressive education, the book received praise from critics. The 1000 Transcript wrote that it had common sense and a freshness of viewpoint . . . . Hers is the...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
Her friendship with Dora Marsden remained constant until Marsden's mental health deteriorated. Marsden was one of the few people who knew and addressed HSW by her pseudonym, Josephine Wright. After Weaver closed down the...
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...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
MG 's friendship with Dora Marsden ended in a breach. With Sylvia Pankhurst , too, her relationship later came to grief, but this was after a particularly close period following the birth of Sylvia's son...
Friends, Associates Storm Jameson
SJ moved in various creative circles as she began to write, review, and undertake other literary work. She first met Dora Marsden in 1913: Marsden was editor of the Egoist and Jameson wrote a number...
Employer Mary Gawthorpe
She then accepted Dora Marsden 's offer of a position as co-editor on The Freewoman, although she had turned down Marsden's first suggestion on the grounds that she wanted to finish [her] work in...

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