Anna Wickham : a Poet's Daring Life
Poet Anna Wickham, a neglected figure in early 20th-century literature, is the subject of this biography. The book details her flight from her husband and sons to live with Natalie Clifford Barney in Paris, and her friendships with members of a literary circle that included D.H. Lawrence and Lawrence Durrell
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Cover
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Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
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One Wimbledon, and Then the Sea (1883-1890)
Two "I had traveled in my youth past saturation point" (Queensland 1890-1896)
Three Life in Sydney (1897-1904)
Four Singing, London and Paris (1904-1906)
Five "Not a Single Crumpled Rose Leaf"
Six "An Admirable Mother" (1907-1909)
Seven "I tried to build perfection with my hands" (1910-1912)
Eight May, 1913
Nine "I Got My Courage" (1913)
Ten A Changed Anna (1913-1914)
Eleven Anna Wickham and Harold Monro (1913 and beyond). Twelve Anna Wickham and D.H. Lawrence (1915)
Thirteen The Hepburn Family during the War (1914 and beyond)
Fourteen "O Give Me Back . . ." (1919-1921)
Fifteen Paris, and Return (1922-1926)
Sixteen "I have a skin for what is false in you"
Seventeen Married Life (1928-1929)
Eighteen "How lovely you were / In your embrace of stars"
Nineteen Reconfiguration: La Tour Bourgeoise (1930-1934)
Twenty Writing Her Life (1934-1939)
Twenty-One The Boys and the War (1939-1942)
Twenty-Two Staying at Home (1943-1945)
Twenty-Three "The astringency of wisdom" (1946-1947). Epilogue
A Selection of Poems
Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography on Anna Wickham (1883-1947)
Index
About the Author