| Bryher (1894-1983) was the pen name of
Annie Winnifred Ellerman. She was born in September 1894 in Margate. She travelled in Europe as a child, to France, Italy and Egypt. At the age of fourteen she was
enrolled in a traditional English boarding school. On one of her travels, Ellerman journeyed to the Scilly Isles off the southwestern coast of Great
Britain and acquired her future pseudonym from one of them.
During the 1920s, Bryher was an unconventional figure in Paris, being acquainted or indeed intimate with Ernest
Hemingway. James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach and Berenice Abbott.
Prior to and during World War II, Bryher and Alice B. Toklas were instrumental in helping hundreds of mainly Jewish
refugees ecape from the Nazis.
Although Bryher had entered into a marriage of convenience with the American author Robert McAlmon in 1921, her real partner was the poet Hilda Doolittle
(H.D.).
Her works include:
External links
Books
- Analyzing Freud: The Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle by Bryher, H.D., Susan Stanford Friedman (Editor)
ISBN 0811214990
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