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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... freedom from familial ties . She finally changed her name simply to Bryher by deed poll in , at last throwing off all vestiges of paternal control and iden- tity at a time when her own career as a historical nov- elist was ...
... freedom from parental con- trol.12 While McAlmon proved to be a complicated choice of marriage partner in emotional terms , his in- terest in literature and avant - garde writing provided Bryher with the most fascinating contacts and ...
... the wreckage in the sand . II Storm ever remained a profound association of in- fancy , storm and a longing to run away . There were days when she desired utter uncontrollable freedom so much that 23 THE AGE OF DISCOVERY.
Two Novels: Development And Two Selves Bryher. days when she desired utter uncontrollable freedom so much that she had to escape from sight , were it but to hide at the bottom of the garden till the fit had passed , days she longed to be ...
... 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 with a peace that held ...