Bryher (novelist)
English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bryher (2 September 1894 ā 28 January 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, of the Ellerman ship-owning family.
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Born | 2 September 1894 Margate, Kent, England |
Died | 28 January 1983 (1983-01-29) (aged 88) Vevey, Switzerland |
Resting place | Saint Martin's Cemetery, Vevey, Switzerland |
Occupation | Novelist |
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She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lover H.D. and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisensteinās work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist.