Mary Butts
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| Mary Butts | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 13, 1890 |
| Died | March 5, 1937 (aged 46) |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | British |
Mary Franeis Butts (December 13, 1890 - March 5, 1937) was a British modernist writer. Her work found recognition in important literary magazines such as "The Bookman" and "The Little Review", as well as from some of her fellow modernists, T. S. Eliot, H.D. and Bryher. She was friends with Jean Cocteau,[1] who illustrated her book Imaginary Letters.[2] After her death, her works fell into obscurity until they began to be republished in the 1980s.[3] She spent about twelve weeks mid-1921 at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily; she found the practices there shocking, and came away with little more than a drug habit.[4]
In 1918 she married John Rodker, and gave birth to a daughter, Camilla. They divorced in 1927, followed by a relationship with Cecil Maitland, after which, in 1930 she married Gabriel Atkin.
Her papers are held at the Beinecke Library at Yale University.[5] Her biography, by N. Blondel, appeared in 1998.[6]
[edit] Published works
- 1923 Speed the Plough and other Stories
- 1925 Ashe of Rings
- 1928 Armed with Madness
- 1928 Imaginary Letters
- 1932 Death of Felicity Taverner
- 1932 Traps for Unbelievers
- 1932 Several Occasions
- 1932 Warning to Hikers
- 1933 The Macedonian
- 1935 Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra
- 1937 The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns, autobiography
- 1938 Last Stories [7]
[edit] References
- ^ Ifs, Ands, or Butts, Austin Chronicle, August 31, 1998
- ^ Beinecke Library, Recent Aquisitions, Fall 1998
- ^ Blondel, N (2004). "Butts, Mary Franeis (1890-1937)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Brian Harrison. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Booth, Martin [2000] (2001). A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley (trade paperback), Coronet (in English), London: Hodder and Stoughton, 375-76. ISBN 0-340-71806-4. “Mary Butts and [Cecil] Maitland left Cefalú on 16 September after staying about twelve weeks. They had not enjoyed their visit[...] Also, they both came away drug addicts.”
- ^ Yale University: Mary Butts Papers
- ^ N. Blondel (1998), Mary Butts: Scenes from a Life, McPherson & Company, Kingston, NY, ISBN 0-929701-55-0
- ^ A website introducing Mary Butts (English) (2003-06-13). Retrieved on 2006-05-28.
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