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When is a woman not
H.D., Borderline
113
it is distinguished by
‘Our Friend Bryher’ in The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
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Gluck no prefix, no suffix
Diana Souhami, Gluck: Her Biography
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I have rushed to the penniless
Bryher, The Heart to Artemis
114
I was completely a child of
Ibid.
115
There was only one street in Paris
Ibid.
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his beard so neat it could have been
Robert McAlmon, Being Geniuses Together
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‘He keeps me in a glass case’
Ibid.
117
I found the French fleuret
The Heart to Artemis
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In the early nineteen hundreds
‘Recognition not farewell’ Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1937
119
I watched the seamen
The Heart to Artemis
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What do you expect
Ibid.
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I was flung into a crowded
Ibid.
120
I had the emotional development
Ibid.
121
It was an instantaneous falling
Ibid.
121
even to see a puffin
Ibid.
121
There was something about
Ibid.
121
Women will never be accepted
Ibid.
122
Complete frustration leads to
Bryher, Development
122
I have always been a feminist
Ibid.
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paint not the object
Stéphane Mallarmé to Henri Cazalis, 30 October 1864, Oeuvres complètes, 1945
123
The rhythms were new
The Heart to Artemis
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to blot out this garden
H.D., Sheltered Garden, Poems 21
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Was something going to happen
The Heart to Artemis
125
The door opened and I started
Ibid.
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so madly it is terrible
H.D. to John Cournos, quoted in Herself Defined
126
I don’t want to be (as they say
H.D., HERmione
127
We are legitimate children
H.D., Asphodel
127
She was a disappointment
HERmione
128
tall, thin, pale, rather handsome
To Dora Marsden, 1 July 1914, quoted in Dear Miss Weaver
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best of the imagists
May Sinclair to Charlotte Mew, June 1915, Berg Collection
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to deny love entrance
Quoted in Herself Defined
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Hilda gets very low
Frieda Lawrence to Amy Lowell, February 1918
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I feel my work is beautiful
H.D. to John Cournos, Iowa Review, vol. 16, no. 3
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You seem to be in a rather
Aldington to H.D., 3 August 1918, Silverstein H.D. chronology
131
this preposterous masculine
Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2
132
No more than Cain
Aldington to H.D., December 1918, Silverstein
132
Her nerves are very shaken
D.H. Lawrence to Amy Lowell, 28 December, 1918
134
You must think me the greatest
Patmore to Bryher, 25 February 1922, Silverstein
134
The world is full of my daughters
Patmore to Bryher, 10 June 1924, Silverstein
134
sense of being in a bell jar
H.D., Tribute to Freud
134
stars turn in purple
H.D., ‘Stars Wheel in Purple’
135
bluer than blue, bluer than gentian
H.D., Asphodel
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When I met Bryher first
Ibid.
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that seemed to be the only
H.D. to Ezra Pound, 1928
137
Hilda’s circle did not like me at all
The Heart to Artemis
138
back and forth from Audley Street
Ibid.
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her tall form languidly
Havelock Ellis, The Fountain of Life, 1930
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When a creative scientist
H.D., Notes on Thought and Vision
140
super feelers of the super mind
Ibid.
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We had made a pact
Ibid.
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They are not important
H.D., Tribute to Freud
142
this writing on the wall before me
Ibid.
143
Hilda went right out of her mind
Quoted in Herself Defined
146
the energy of a yearling
Robert McAlmon and The Lost Generation
146
to sing with my own
‘Some Have Their Moments’
147
I thought America
Bryher, West, 1925
148
I put my problem
The Heart to Artemis
149
I was desperately
Ibid.
150
We are in a terrible
H.D. to Viola Jordan, 17 February 1921, Silverstein
152
moneymakers on the grand
Being Geniuses Together
155
Mary was one of the few
‘Recognition not Farewell’, Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1937
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‘Just to prove my darling
15 May 1922 and 15 June 1927
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I personally don’t trust
Unpublished letter, Silverstein
159
We strove for a name
H.D., Heliodora, 1924
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Please if you can
Macpherson to H.D. circa 1926. Quoted in Herself Defined
163
Hoping to be a man
Kenneth Macpherson, ‘One’
164
She looked a fright
Ibid.
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not to get caught up
Macpherson to H.D., 1927. Quoted in Herself Defined
166
as the stone will cause
Macpherson, Pool Reflection, 1927
166
one of Pabst
Macpherson to H.D., 27 October 1927
167
never to be forgotten
Close Up, vol. 4, no. 4, April 1929
168
We were invited
The Heart to Artemis
170
a chill passed over me
Donald, Close Up
171
a dame from the city
Ibid.
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This is a four-reel film
Ibid.
172
Inside every person
‘Secrets of a Soul’, Bernard Chodorkoff and Seymour Baxter. American Imago, vol. 31, no. 4, 1974
173
I do not believe
Ibid.
173
The Heart to Artemis
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Brave, handsome
Macpherson to H.D., 1928. Quoted in Herself Defined
177
Not black films
Donald, Close Up, vol. 5, no. 2
177
made her entry
Janet Flanner, Paris was Yesterday
179
ruined our make-up
Quoted in Martin Bauml Duberman, Paul Robeson
179
When is an African
H.D., ‘Borderline – A Pool Film with Paul Robeson’, 1930
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It’s a dreadful highbrow
Quoted in Paul Robeson
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It was the time of
Heart to Artemis
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that seldom if ever
Analyzing Freud: The Letters of H.D., Bryher and their Circle
184
usually a child decides
Ibid.
184
F says mine
H.D. to Bryher, 23 March 1933 quoted in Friedman, Psyche Reborn and Analyzing Freud
184
I feel so very very
H.D. to Bryher, 10 March 1933, Analyzing Freud
184
These Jews, I think
H.D. to Bryher, 28 May 1933, Analyzing Freud
185
I cannot understand
Bryher, ‘What shall you do in the war?’ Close Up, 1933
186
Freud in himself
The Heart to Artemis
186
He says ‘many
H.D. to Bryher, 22 March 1933, Analyzing Freud
187
such a scene with Elizabeth
Bryher papers, Beinecke, quoted in Analyzing Freud
188
if you saw Hepburn
Quoted in Herself Defined
188
I had the great satisfaction
Ibid.
188
a Hilton on wheels
Macpherson, ‘One’
189
I believe that my father
The Heart to Artemis
190
I read the news
Freud to Bryher, 19 July 1933, Analyzing Freud
191
Please Fido if you love me
H.D. to Bryher, 24 November 1934
192
I don’t want to change you
Bryher to Macpherson, 25 August 1934
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five buds and flowers
H.D. to Silvia Dobson, 1933, quoted in Herself Defined
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I came to Vienna
Freud, 16 November 1938, letter to Time and Tide
195
I blame the English government
Heart to Artemis
196
Ask me to die
Ibid.
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when people are fighting
Ibid.
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I plundered the black
Ibid.
197
Here I was
Ibid.
197
that blue smoky
The Days of Mars
198
we were firm friends
Ibid.
199
I could visualise
H.D., The Gift
200
I had a sort of ‘shock treatment
H.D. to Bryher, 21 September 1946, Silverstein
201
When you were so very ill
Bryher to H.D., 29 September 1946
207
Most occupants
Bryher to Silvia Dobson, 1 May 1961, Silverstein
207
she minded the frustrations
Bryher to Silvia Dobson, 1 October 1961, Silverstein
209
I was nine when my parents
Bryher, foreword to The Coin of Carthage
Works by Bryher
Amy Lowell: A Critical Appreciation, 1918
The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1972
Development, 1920
Film Problems in Soviet Russia, 1929
H.D. fragment, typescript (at Beinecke)
The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs, 1962
Two Selves, 1923
West, 1925
‘What Shall You Do in the War?’, Close Up, June 1933
Novels:
Beowulf, 1956
The Coin of Carthage, 1964
The Fourteenth of October, 1954
This January Tale, 1968
Roman Wall, 1955
Ruan, 1961
Works by H.D.
Asphodel, 1961
Collected Poems, 1912–44, 1983
The Gift, 1998
Helen in Egypt, 1961
HERmione, 1981
Hymen, 1921
Notes on Thought and Vision, 1982
Palimpsest, 1926
Tribute to Freud, 1956
Works referencing Bryher
Aldington, Richard, Death of a Hero, 1929
——Richard Aldington & H.D., The Early Years in Letters, ed. Caroline Zilboorg, 1992
Collecott, Diana, H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1999
Donald, James, A. Friedberg and L. Marcus, eds, Close Up 1927–1933: Cinema and Modernism, 1998
Dobson, Silvia,’Mirror for a Star’, letters and autobiographical notes. Unpublished typescript at Beinecke
Duberman, Martin Bauml, Paul Robeson, 1989
Ellis, Havelock, Fountain of Life, 1930
——Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol. 1: Sexual Inversion, 1897
Flanner, Janet, Paris Was Yesterday: 1925–1939, ed. Irving Drutman, 1972
Freud, Sigmund, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900
——Letters to H.D. and Bryher (at Beinecke)
——Totem and Taboo, 1913
——Why War?, 1933
Friedberg, Anne, ‘Writing About Cinema: Close Up 1927–1933’, 1983
Friedman, Susan Stanford, ed., Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher and their Circle, 2002
——Psyche Reborn: the emergence of H.D., 1981
Gregg, Frances, The Mystic Leeway, 1995
Grosskurth, Phyllis, Havelock Ellis, 1980
Guest, Barbara, Herself Defined; the poet H., 1984
Hanscombe, Gillian and Smyers, Virginia, Writing for Their Lives, 1987
Knoll, Robert E., ed., McAlmon and the Lost Generation, 1962
Lawrence, D.H., The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, ed., Aldous Huxley, 1932
——Selected Letters, ed. James T. Boulton, 1996
Lawrence, Frieda, Not I But the Wind, 1934
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, Lorenzo in Taos, 1933
Macpherson, Kenneth, fragment of a novel on H.D., at Beinecke
——‘One’, notes for a memoir, at Beinecke
McAlmon, Robert, Being Geniuses Together, 1938
——Some Have Their Moments, typescript at Beinecke
——Letters to H.D. at Beinecke
Monnier, Adrienne, The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, ed. and trs. Richard McDougall, 1976
Patmore, Brigit, My Friends When Young, 1968
Pearson, Norman Holmes, notes for a biography of H.D., at Beinecke
Pound, Ezra, Selected Poems 1908–1959, 1975
——The Cantos, 1956
——Literary Essays, ed. T.S. Eliot, 1956
——Letters to H.D. and Bryher, at Beinecke
Rosenberg, John, Dorothy Richardson, 1973
Sachs, Hanns, Freud: Master and Friend, 1944
Smyth, Ethel, Impressions That Remain – Memoirs of Ethel Smyth
Souhami, Diana, Gluck: Her Biography, 1988
Natalie Barney
Natalie Barney’s and Romaine Brooks’ papers are in the Archives of American Art and the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; the McFarlin Library at the University of T
ulsa; and the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet in Paris. Six hundred letters between Natalie and Romaine Brooks, dating from 1924 to 1969, are in the McFarlin Library. The publication by Francesco Rapazzini of the marriage agreement between Natalie and Elisabeth de Gramont, shows Natalie’s relationships in a new light.
The papers of Djuna Barnes are in the McKeldin Library, University of Maryland. The recent biography of Eva Palmer by Artemis Leontis is scholarly and impressive.
The Janet Flanner and Solita Solano papers are in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.
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I am a lesbian
Éparpillements
215
Love has always
Selected Writings
215
Living is the first
Ibid.
215
My queerness
Lettres à une inconnue, unpublished 1899
215
I have loved
The Woman Who Lives With Me, privately printed, no date; see A Perilous Advantage
215
the water I made
Souvenirs indiscrets
215
I neither like nor
Pensées d’une amazone
216
The finest life
Ibid.