Louis Silverstein’s online H.D. Chronology is an invaluable and detailed research guide covering every event in her life. http://www.imagists.org/hd/hdchron1.html
H.D.’s papers are also at the Beinecke – in 69 boxes. The H.D. International Society has an official website: https://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu. It has also compiled a Bryher Chronology: https://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu/hdcircle/bryher/
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When is a woman not
H.D., Borderline
113
it is distinguished by
‘Our Friend Bryher’ in The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
113
Gluck no prefix, no suffix
Diana Souhami, Gluck: Her Biography
113
I have rushed to the penniless
Bryher, The Heart to Artemis
114
I was completely a child of
Ibid.
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There was only one street in Paris
Ibid.
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his beard so neat it could have been
Robert McAlmon, Being Geniuses Together
117
‘He keeps me in a glass case’
Ibid.
117
I found the French fleuret
The Heart to Artemis
118
In the early nineteen hundreds
‘Recognition not farewell’ Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1937
119
I watched the seamen
The Heart to Artemis
119
What do you expect
Ibid.
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I was flung into a crowded
Ibid.
120
I had the emotional development
Ibid.
121
It was an instantaneous falling
Ibid.
121
even to see a puffin
Ibid.
121
There was something about
Ibid.
121
Women will never be accepted
Ibid.
122
Complete frustration leads to
Bryher, Development
122
I have always been a feminist
Ibid.
123
paint not the object
Stéphane Mallarmé to Henri Cazalis, 30 October 1864, Oeuvres complètes, 1945
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The rhythms were new
The Heart to Artemis
123
to blot out this garden
H.D., Sheltered Garden, Poems 21
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Was something going to happen
The Heart to Artemis
125
The door opened and I started
Ibid.
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so madly it is terrible
H.D. to John Cournos, quoted in Herself Defined
126
I don’t want to be (as they say
H.D., HERmione
127
We are legitimate children
H.D., Asphodel
127
She was a disappointment
HERmione
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tall, thin, pale, rather handsome
To Dora Marsden, 1 July 1914, quoted in Dear Miss Weaver
128
best of the imagists
May Sinclair to Charlotte Mew, June 1915, Berg Collection
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to deny love entrance
Quoted in Herself Defined
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Hilda gets very low
Frieda Lawrence to Amy Lowell, February 1918
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I feel my work is beautiful
H.D. to John Cournos, Iowa Review, vol. 16, no. 3
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You seem to be in a rather
Aldington to H.D., 3 August 1918, Silverstein H.D. chronology
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this preposterous masculine
Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2
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No more than Cain
Aldington to H.D., December 1918, Silverstein
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Her nerves are very shaken
D.H. Lawrence to Amy Lowell, 28 December, 1918
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You must think me the greatest
Patmore to Bryher, 25 February 1922, Silverstein
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The world is full of my daughters
Patmore to Bryher, 10 June 1924, Silverstein
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sense of being in a bell jar
H.D., Tribute to Freud
134
stars turn in purple
H.D., ‘Stars Wheel in Purple’
135
bluer than blue, bluer than gentian
H.D., Asphodel
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When I met Bryher first
Ibid.
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that seemed to be the only
H.D. to Ezra Pound, 1928
137
Hilda’s circle did not like me at all
The Heart to Artemis
138
back and forth from Audley Street
Ibid.
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her tall form languidly
Havelock Ellis, The Fountain of Life, 1930
140
When a creative scientist
H.D., Notes on Thought and Vision
140
super feelers of the super mind
Ibid.
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We had made a pact
Ibid.
142
They are not important
H.D., Tribute to Freud
142
this writing on the wall before me
Ibid.
143
Hilda went right out of her mind
Quoted in Herself Defined
146
the energy of a yearling
Robert McAlmon and The Lost Generation
146
to sing with my own
‘Some Have Their Moments’
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I thought America
Bryher, West, 1925
148
I put my problem
The Heart to Artemis
149
I was desperately
Ibid.
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We are in a terrible
H.D. to Viola Jordan, 17 February 1921, Silverstein
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moneymakers on the grand
Being Geniuses Together
155
Mary was one of the few
‘Recognition not Farewell’, Life and Letters Today, Autumn 1937
156
‘Just to prove my darling
15 May 1922 and 15 June 1927
158
I personally don’t trust
Unpublished letter, Silverstein
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We strove for a name
H.D., Heliodora, 1924
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Please if you can
Macpherson to H.D. circa 1926. Quoted in Herself Defined
163
Hoping to be a man
Kenneth Macpherson, ‘One’
164
She looked a fright
Ibid.
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not to get caught up
Macpherson to H.D., 1927. Quoted in Herself Defined
166
as the stone will cause
Macpherson, Pool Reflection, 1927
166
one of Pabst
Macpherson to H.D., 27 October 1927
167
never to be forgotten
Close Up, vol. 4, no. 4, April 1929
168
We were invited
The Heart to Artemis
170
a chill passed over me
Donald, Close Up
171
a dame from the city
Ibid.
171
This is a four-reel film
Ibid.
172
Inside every person
‘Secrets of a Soul’, Bernard Chodorkoff and Seymour Baxter. American Imago, vol. 31, no. 4, 1974
173
I do not believe
Ibid.
173
The object of my search
The Heart to Artemis
175
Brave, handsome
Macpherson to H.D., 1928. Quoted in Herself Defined
177
Not black films
Donald, Close Up, vol. 5, no. 2
177
made her entry
Janet Flanner, Paris was Yesterday
179
ruined our make-up
Quoted in Martin Bauml Duberman, Paul Robeson
179
When is an African
H.D., ‘Borderline – A Pool Film with Paul Robeson’, 1930
179
It’s a dreadful highbrow
Quoted in Paul Robeson
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It was the time of
Heart to Artemis
183
that seldom if ever
Analyzing Freud: The Letters of H.D., Bryher and their Circle
184
usually a child decides
Ibid.
184
F says mine
H.D. to Bryher,
