During her childhood, Annie travelled with her family
on the continent of Europe and in North Africa. She was sent to boarding school when she was
fourteen.
In 1918, Bryher met and began a relationship with
American poet Hilda Dolittle, who was known by her initials – H.D. During the
1920s Bryher travelled to Paris where she met writers Ernest Hemingway, James
Joyce, Robert McAlmon, Kenneth Macpherson and Gertrude Stein, publisher Sylvia
Beach and photographer Berenice Abbott.
As she was independently wealthy, Bryher was able to
help struggling writers, poets and artists. In 1921, she married Robert McAlmon but the couple divorced
in 1927. Bryher then married
Kenneth Macpherson – they were both passionate about films – and they built a
Bauhaus-style house/film studio in Switzerland, which they called Kenwin. In 1927 Bryner, Macpherson and H.D.
founded the film magazine “Close Up”.
During the 1930s Kenwin became a centre for refugees
and she helped at least a hundred people escape from Nazi rule before she
returned to England in 1940.
Bryhers’ poetry anthologies are “Region of Lutany”,
published in 1914 and “Arrow Music” published in 1922. She wrote novels and works of
non-fiction and both Bryher and H.D. appeared in one of the films made by their
film company The Pool Group.
Bryher died in 1983.
NOTE:
Bryher is the name of the smallest of the inhabited Isles of Scilly.
Source:
Wikipedia
