Mary Butts
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Standard Name: Butts, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Franeis Butts
Pseudonym: Mark Drury
Married Name: Mary Franeis Rodker
Married Name: Mary Franeis Atkin
authentic Englishness. Beginning her career as a modernist,
attracted considerable attention and praise (together with controversy) during her lifetime. By the time of her death she was seen primarily as a religious or mystical writer, and after it her writing remained largely neglected until a revival of interest in the 1990s.
published five novels, three collections of short stories, some poems, a memoir, and several essays (one of which denounces the Bloomsbury Group). Her subjects ranged from the Great War and war trauma to history, religion, mysticism, and classical mythology. Her expressions of ecological concern (laments for the destruction of nature and the countryside by hikers and industrialisation) take a conservative, elitist, even racialist stance and set a premium on Timeline
Texts
Blaser, Robin et al. “Afterword”. Imaginary Letters, Talonbooks, 1979, pp. 61-80.
Butts, Mary. Armed with Madness. A. and C. Boni, 1928.
Butts, Mary. Ashe of Rings. Three Mountain Press, 1925.
Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 32-45. Butts, Mary. Death of Felicity Taverner. Wishart, 1932.
Butts, Mary, and Jean Cocteau. Imaginary Letters. E. W. Titus, 1928.
Blondel, Nathalie, and Mary Butts. “Introduction”. The Journals of Mary Butts, edited by Nathalie Blondel and Nathalie Blondel, Yale University Press, 2002, pp. 1-41.
Butts, Mary. Last Stories. Brendin Publishing, 1938.
Ashbery, John, and Mary Butts. “Preface”. From Altar to Chimney-Piece: Selected Stories, McPherson, 1992, p. vii - xii.
Butts, Mary. Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra. William Heinemann, 1935.
Butts, Mary. Several Occasions. Wishart, 1932.
Butts, Mary. “Speed the Plough”. Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories, edited by Trudi Tate, Manchester University Press, 1995.
Butts, Mary. Speed the Plough and Other Stories. Chapman and Hall, 1923.
Butts, Mary. The Crystal Cabinet. Metheun, 1937.
Butts, Mary. The Macedonian. W. Heinemann, 1933.
Butts, Mary. Traps for Unbelievers. Desmond Harmsworth, 1932.
Butts, Mary. Warning to Hikers. Wishart, 1932.