Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: The mid-1860's to 1928
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Charlotte Mary “Lorn” Mew, Anne Mew, Harold Monro, Alida Monro, Ella D’arcy, Amy Dawson Scott, May Sinclair
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, 1910’s, 1920’s, England or English people, Women’s issues, 1900’s
- Locales: London, England
Charlotte Mary Mew (1869-1928)—a poet now in the process of rediscovery—is one of those perplexing figures: a writer of great promise who produced a disappointingly small body of work. Her first published story appeared in 1894 in the second issue of The Yellow Book, at that time the most avant-garde journal for new writers and New Women of the 1890's. A small collection of her poetry was printed as a Poetry Bookshop chapbook in 1916. Yet although Mew's work was admired by such contemporaries as Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Hardy, and although...
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