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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... is able to avail himself of the opportunities for self expression afforded by the variations in colour and fabric which a woman may use . Moreover , women are no longer debarred from professions that are open to men , and if XX TWO NOVELS.
... , for precociousness in nine cases out of ten ends in abortion. Her hopes are beyond her power of expression. The later Nancy records this epi- sode with charming humour , particularly the end where the. DEVELOPMENT.
... expression broke to lines of echoed verse and worse thought . ” She calls herself “ a child of eighteen , ” and such she appears really to have been . For all her critical faculty , evidenced in the chapter “ The Colour of Words , ” she ...
... expression will free her spirit , but the wide ranges of creative imagination are denied her . She cannot make through the power of vi- sion . “ It was intolerable to write of any mood she had not personally experienced ” is the keynote ...
... expression , love of freedom , a wish to go to sea , forming the base of her individuality , were already very deep . The days , the little days before they changed to the larger radiance of childhood , passed in happiness , complete ...