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Book SynopsisH.D.’s friends and lovers were a veritable
Who’s Who of modernism. Hollenberg gives us a glimpse into H.D.’s relationships with them. With rich detail, this biography follows H.D. from her early years in America with her family to her later years in England during both world wars to Switzerland, which would eventually become her home base.
Table of Contents
- Prologue
- Part One: Early Years and First Loves (1886-1913)
- Chapter 1: Bethlehem Years, 1886-1895
- Chapter 2: The Years in Upper Darby, PA, 1896-1909
- Chapter 3: The Frances Gregg Period, 1910-1913
- Part Two: Imagism, World War One, and Personal Loss, 1913-1918
- Chapter 4: H.D., Imagism, the Onset of War and a Still Birth, 1913-1915
- Chapter 5: Changing Partners in the “War Tornado,” 1916-1918
- Part Three: New Family and New Forms of Art, 1918-1931
- Chapter 6: The “Mysteries of Vision” and the Healing Power of Art, 1918-1920
- Chapter 7: Travels and a New Menage, 1920-1923
- Chapter 8: More Prose, a New Lover, and an Introduction to Avant-Garde Film, 1924-1927
- Chapter 9: More Film, Endings and Beginnings, 1928-1931
- Part Four: Psychoanalysis and Renewal, 1932-1939
- Chapter 10: Travels and Analysis with Freud, 1932-1934
- Chapter 11: Gradual Regenerations and the Onset of War, 1935-1939
- Part Five: London, World War Two and its Aftermath, 1939-1954
- Chapter 12: World War Two and the War Trilogy, 1939-1945
- Chapter 13: Breakdown, Switzerland, and Prose Fiction, 1946-1950
- Chapter 14: Becoming a Grandmother and the Creation of Helen in Egypt, 1951-1954
- Part Six: A New Love before Facing Death, 1955-1961
- Chapter 15: Heydt, An Accident, Occult Research, and More Poetry, 1955-1958
- Chapter 16: More Poetry, Recognition, and a Fatal Illness, 1959-1961
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
