H.D. and Bryher : an untold love story of modernism /

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Author / Creator:	McCabe, Susan, 1960- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Description:	xviii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	H. D. -- (Hilda Doolittle), -- 1886-1961. Bryher, -- 1894-1983. H. D. -- (Hilda Doolittle), -- 1886-1961 -- Relations with women. Bryher, -- 1894-1983 -- Relations with women. Bryher, -- 1894-1983 H. D. -- (Hilda Doolittle), -- 1886-1961. Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography. Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography. Lesbian authors -- Biography. Lesbian authors. Novelists, English. Poets, American. Relations with women. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12635014

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ISBN:	9780190621223 0190621222 9780190621247
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This dual biography takes on the daring task of examining how two women, who didn't feel like women, survived as a couple, raising an illegitimate child during a period when such arrangements were frowned upon, if even recognized. When they met in 1918, H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle in 1886), had already achieved recognition as an Imagist poet, engaged in a lesbian affair, was married to a shell-shocked adulterous poet, and was pregnant by another. She fell in love with Bryher (born Annie Winifred Ellerman in 1894), trapped both in a female body and in the shadow of her father, Sir John Ellerman, a wealthy shipping magnate. They felt a telepathic and electric connection, bonding over Greek poetry, geography, ancient history, and a shared bodily dysphoria. Bryher introduced H.D. to cinema, psychoanalysis, and politics, herself rescuing refugees from Nazis throughout the 1930s. Bryher engaged in legal strategies to protect H.D., marrying Kenneth Macpherson, who adopted H.D.'s child and collaborated with the couple in filmmaking, discovering his queerness. Both H.D. and Bryher were on vision quests, and their cerebral eroticism led them to otherworldly experiences. During World War II, they held séances in London. After "V-J Day" was announced, H.D. had a severe nervous breakdown, which Bryher, taking great pains, ensured she survived. As a love story born out of war and modernism, the book speaks to their struggles to escape binary gender, homophobic and white supremacist agendas, while celebrating their creative triumphs and courageous aspirations"--

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and a Note on the Archives
Dramatis Personae
The Voyage Out 1886-1915
1. The Meeting: "We Two" and Modernism
2. H.D.'s Ancestors Circle
3. Bryher's Family Closet
Line 1. Floride 1909-1919
4. Sentimental Educations
5. Love & Art: Being Phantoms Together
6. Romance of Rescue & "the Jellyfish Experience"
Line 2. Borodino 1920-1928
7. Parting of the Veil: Greece, 1920 ...
8. Questing America & Marianne Moore
9. Inconvenient Marriages & Wanderlust
10. Cinematics: We Three
Line 3. Psychoanalysis 1929-1939
11. Film Morphing into Borderline
12. Enter Freud: Dreaming through the Houses
13. Death Drive & "the Perfect-Bi"
14. "Group Consciousness" & Ion
15. Abdication, Aggression, Anschluss
Line 4. Blitz 1939-1945
16. Twilight Zone & "the Combined UNK"
17. Walls Falling & the Drive inward
18. Séance Nights
19. The Writing on the Wall
Line 5. Viking 1946-1961
20. Losing One's Mind to Find It
21. Tidying Up Modernism
22. Cold War Romances
23. Recovery & Illuminations (1953-)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

H.D. and Bryher : an untold love story of modernism /

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