Bryher: Two Novels: Development And Two SelvesBryher (born Annie Winifred Ellerman) is perhaps best known today as the lifelong partner of the poet H.D. She was, however, a central figure in modernist and avant-garde cultural experimentation in the early twentieth century; a prolific producer of poetry, novels, autobiography, and criticism; and an intimate and patron of such modernist artists as Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and Dorothy Richardson. Bryher’s own path-breaking writing has remained largely neglected, long out of print, and inaccessible to those interested in her oeuvre. Now, for the first time since their original publication in the early 1920s, two of Bryher's pioneering works of fictionalized autobiography, titled Development and Two Selves, are reprinted in one volume for a new audience of readers, scholars, and critics. |
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... chapters ” as the most important , conveying as they do the “ dull cramping formalism ” of girls ' education . The reasons for the Daily Mail's interest in sparking debate about Development undoubtedly arose out of general debates about ...
... chapter on female inversion in his Sexual Inversion ( ) , Ellis records childhood “ masculinity ” as an early indicator of in- nate inversion . In the case history of “ Miss M , ” he notes the following : As a child she did not ...
... chapters before the chapter “ Meeting . ” She is , indeed , woven into Nancy's consciousness prior to the point of their meeting when she finds “ strong , XXXV INTRODUCTION.
... chapter of aphorisms— chippings of the artistic egg — slowly , very slowly , the character is built up for us . A strange , contradictory character , supersensitive to a certain set of impres- sions , quite cold to others ; a character ...
... chapter “ Salt Water ” is lyric . Here the artist has full play , and we feel that Nancy is at last coming into her own . The chapter on “ Vers Libre ” is only partly con- cerned with that all - absorbing topic . It is really the re ...