modernist women

"Katherine Mansfield was not a rebel, she was an innovator. Born into the English traditions of prose..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:33:00 +0100

“Katherine Mansfield was not a rebel, she was an innovator. Born into the English traditions of prose narrative, she neither revolted against these nor broke with them - simply, she passed beyond them. And now tradition, extending, has followed her.”

- elizabeth bowen, ‘a living writer: katherine mansfield’, in the mulberry tree: writings of elizabeth bowen, ed. by hermione lee (london: virago, 1986), pp. 69-89 (p. 75).

"Don’t lose any more half stones! For Heaven’s sake put the half back again. […]..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:27:28 +0100

“Don’t lose any more half stones! For Heaven’s sake put the half back again. […] God only loves the Fat; the thin people he sticks pins into for ever and ever.”

- Letter from Katherine Mansfield to Dorothy Brett. 29 July 1921.

poetrysociety: Marianne Moore’s Brooklyn.

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:56:39 +0100

poetrysociety:

Marianne Moore’s Brooklyn.

infina: Cover, «The Trend» magazine, illustration by Djuna...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:52:39 +0100

infina:

Cover, «The Trend» magazine, illustration by Djuna Barnes, October 1914. Courtesy of the General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

cavetocanvas: Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf in a Deckchair,...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:34:40 +0000

cavetocanvas:

Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf in a Deckchair, 1912

rebecca west in conversation (1976)

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:45:38 +0000

rebecca west in conversation (1976):

from the bbc archives, a television interview with the author rebecca west, first broadcast in 1976.

Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:22:04 +0000

Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950:

A two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, held at Newcastle University, UK, from 13-14 April 20120. The conference explores the changing relationship of women and travel across key moments in modernity, such the First World War and its effects on women’s independence, the developments in British Imperial activity, and the boom in rail, air and sea travel. The conference aims to stimulate academic discussion on a range of topics relating to women and travel in the period ranging from 1850-1950. These topics include representations of women and travel in fiction and film, non-fictional portrayals and documentations, as well as archival work on first-hand accounts of women travellers.

Registration for this event is now open.

"‘You are late.’ Late, late with forest edges to everything."

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:40:35 +0000

“‘You are late.’ Late, late with forest edges to everything.”

-
H.D., HERmione

(via sketchofthepast)

"It seemed to her now that she wanted many more things than the love of one human being - the sea,the..."

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:24:38 +0000

““It seemed to her now that she wanted many more things than the love of one human being - the sea,the sky. She turned again and looked at the distant blue which was so smooth and serene where the sky met the sea; yes,she could not possibly want only one human being.””

- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)

theanatomyofmelancholy: Writer Dorothy Richardson, born May 17,...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:22:04 +0100

theanatomyofmelancholy:

Writer Dorothy Richardson, born May 17, 1873, photographed by Man Ray.

"Still, there were moments when she realized that her existence, though delightful, was haphazard. It..."

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:06:01 +0100

“Still, there were moments when she realized that her existence, though delightful, was haphazard. It lacked, as it were, solidity; it lacked the necessary fixed background. A bedroom, balcony and cabinet de toilette in a cheap Montmartre hotel cannot possibly be called a solid background.”

- jean rhys, quartet (1928), p. 10.

The Modernism Lab

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:57:10 +0100

The Modernism Lab:

The Modernism Lab is a virtual space dedicated to collaborative research into the roots of literary modernism. We hope, by a process of shared investigation, to describe the emergence of modernism out of a background of social, political, and existential ferment. The project begins with the period 1914-1926, from the outbreak of the first world war to the full-blown emergence of English modernism. The Lab supports undergraduate courses on Modern Poetry, the Modern British Novel, and Joyce’s Ulysses and a graduate course in English and Comparative Literature, “Moderns, 1914-1926.” Students in the classes contribute materials to the website and use it as the platform for their ongoing research. The main components of the website are an innovative research tool, YNote, containing information on the activities of 24 leading modernist writers during this crucial period and a wiki consisting of brief interpretive essays on literary works and movements of the period.

"Still there are things about writing I think of & want to tell Katherine…I have the feeling that..."

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:04:35 +0100

“Still there are things about writing I think of & want to tell Katherine…I have the feeling that I shall think of her at intervals all through life. Probably we had something in common which I shall never find in anyone else.”

- Virginia Woolf, on Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry dated January 16th, 1923 (a week after KM’s death)

asteakandmilkshake: (via Document: Woolf’s Letter to a Young...

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:36:39 +0100

asteakandmilkshake:

(via Document: Woolf’s Letter to a Young Poet)

auntada: Nella Larsen, Cambridge, MA (date unknown)

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:06:00 +0100

auntada:

Nella Larsen, Cambridge, MA (date unknown)

"… shadow seeks shadow, then both leaf and leaf-shadow are lost."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:46:25 +0100

“… shadow seeks shadow,
then both leaf
and leaf-shadow are lost.”

- H. D., from “Evening” (via proustitute)

"There is so much to do and I do so little. Life would be almost perfect here if only when I was..."

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:07:12 +0100

“There is so much to do and I do so little. Life would be almost perfect here if only when I was pretending to work I always was working. But that is surely not too hard? Look at the stories that wait and wait just at the threshold. Why don’t I let them in? And their place would be taken by others who are lurking just beyond out there - waiting for the chance.”

- Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks (via katherine-mansfield)

thebloomsburygroup: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West at...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:06:50 +0100

thebloomsburygroup:

Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West at Monk’s House, in 1933.

“A young lady rushed up to me in Pasadena and said she was writing a book about you and me. Isn’t that nice for us?”

- Vita Sackville-West, in a 1933 letter to Virginia Woolf.

lucreciasline: Morbid ? You make me laugh. This life I...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:06:17 +0100

Au Cafe, Photo by Maurice Brange of Sol

lucreciasline:

Morbid ? You make me laugh. This life I write and draw and portray is life as it is, and therefore you call it morbid. Look at my life. Look at the life around me. Where is this beauty that I a supposed to miss? The nice episodes that others depict. Is not everything morbid ? I mean the life of people stripped of their masks. Where are the relieving features? Often I sit down to work on my drawing board, at my typewriter. All of a sudden my joy is gone. I feel tired of it all because, I think, ” What’s the use? “ Today we are, tomorrow dead. We are born and don’t know why. We live and suffer and strive, envious or envied. We love, we hate, we work, we admire, we despise… Why? And we die, and no one will ever know that we have been born.

~ Djuna Barnes, 12 June 1892 - 18 June 1982, when asked why she was ” dreadfully morbid”, in an interview by Guido Bruno (December 1919)

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Tue, 31 May 2011 20:34:54 +0100