Word: aldington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various guises. She "seems to have had lovers almost as often as the rest of us have lunch," says Amos, "and such was their variety that one wonders if she even paused to glance at the menu." If she did, among the entrees she saw were Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, Louis Aragon, Aldous Huxley and Wyndham Lewis. Alas, at her funeral the pallbearers outnumbered the mourners. Writers, unlike painters, are not famous for acknowledging their models...
Herself Defined is a book of such famous names, legendary times and places, and unconventional relationships. H.D. married British Writer Richard Aldington, had a daughter, Perdita, with Composer Cecil Gray, and possibly an affair with D.H. Lawrence. Her most enduring relationship was with Bryher, whose father was Sir John Ellerman, a self-made shipping tycoon from Hull...