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by Diana Souhami


  111

  When is a woman not

  H.D., Borderline

  113

  it is distinguished by

  ‘Our Friend Bryher’ in The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

  113

  Gluck no prefix, no suffix

  Diana Souhami, Gluck: Her Biography

  113

  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.

  117

  his beard so neat it could have been

  Robert McAlmon, Being Geniuses Together

  117

  ‘He keeps me in a glass case’

  Ibid.

  117

  I found the French fleuret

  The Heart to Artemis

  118

  In the early nineteen hundreds

  ‘Recognition not farewell’ Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1937

  119

  I watched the seamen

  The Heart to Artemis

  119

  What do you expect

  Ibid.

  120

  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.

  123

  paint not the object

  Stéphane Mallarmé to Henri Cazalis, 30 October 1864, Oeuvres complètes, 1945

  123

  The rhythms were new

  The Heart to Artemis

  123

  to blot out this garden

  H.D., Sheltered Garden, Poems 21

  124

  Was something going to happen

  The Heart to Artemis

  125

  The door opened and I started

  Ibid.

  125

  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

  128

  best of the imagists

  May Sinclair to Charlotte Mew, June 1915, Berg Collection

  128

  to deny love entrance

  Quoted in Herself Defined

  129

  Hilda gets very low

  Frieda Lawrence to Amy Lowell, February 1918

  130

  I feel my work is beautiful

  H.D. to John Cournos, Iowa Review, vol. 16, no. 3

  131

  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

  136

  When I met Bryher first

  Ibid.

  137

  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.

  139

  her tall form languidly

  Havelock Ellis, The Fountain of Life, 1930

  140

  When a creative scientist

  H.D., Notes on Thought and Vision

  140

  super feelers of the super mind

  Ibid.

  140

  We had made a pact

  Ibid.

  142

  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

  156

  ‘Just to prove my darling

  15 May 1922 and 15 June 1927

  158

  I personally don’t trust

  Unpublished letter, Silverstein

  159

  We strove for a name

  H.D., Heliodora, 1924

  161

  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.

  165

  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.

  171

  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
r />   The object of my search

  The Heart to Artemis

  175

  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

  179

  It’s a dreadful highbrow

  Quoted in Paul Robeson

  180

  It was the time of

  Heart to Artemis

  183

  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

  193

  five buds and flowers

  H.D. to Silvia Dobson, 1933, quoted in Herself Defined

  195

  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.

  196

  when people are fighting

  Ibid.

  196

  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.

 

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