![]() ![]() Bryher divorced MacPherson in 1947 she and Doolittle no longer lived together after 1946, but continued their relationship until Doolittle's death in 1961.īryher, H.D., and Macpherson formed the film magazine Close Up, and the Pool Group. became pregnant with Macpherson's child, but chose to abort the pregnancy. They formally adopted H.D.'s young daughter, Perdita. In Burier, Switzerland, overlooking Lake Geneva, the couple built a Bauhaus-style structure that doubled as a home and film studio, which they named Kenwin. That same year she married Kenneth Macpherson, a writer who shared her interest in film and who was at the same time H.D.'s lover. In 1921 she entered into a marriage of convenience with the American author Robert McAlmon, whom she divorced in 1927. The relationship was open, and both had other partners. In 1918 she met and became involved in a relationship with American poet Hilda Doolittle (better known by her initials, H.D.). Relationship and later life īryher knew from an early age that she was lesbian. She also helped provide funds to purchase a flat in Paris for the destitute Dada artist and writer Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. She also helped with finance for Sylvia Beach's bookshop Shakespeare and Company and certain publishing ventures, and started a film company Pool Group. Her wealth enabled her to give financial support to struggling writers, including Joyce and Edith Sitwell. Among her circle of friends were Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach and Berenice Abbott. On one of her travels, Ellerman journeyed to the Isles of Scilly off the southwestern coast of Great Britain and acquired her future pseudonym from her favourite island, Bryher.ĭuring the 1920s, Bryher was an unconventional figure in Paris. At the age of fourteen she was enrolled in a traditional English boarding school and at around this time her mother and father married. He lived with her mother Hannah Glover, but did not marry her until 1908.īryher traveled in Europe as a child, to France, Italy and Egypt. Her father was the shipowner and financier John Ellerman, who at the time of his death in 1933 was the richest Englishman who had ever lived. Bryher was born in September 1894 in Margate. ![]()
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