So, youre wondering how HD got that moniker? And no, were not talking about high definition television. HD, also known as Hilda Doolittle, was an Imagist poet and novelist. Shes known more in conne

Bryher, whose real name was Annie Winifred Ellerman, was known in her lifetime for her historical novels after World War II. Today, many know her in relation to the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) for sav

Jane Heap is most remembered for being the one-time partner of Margaret Anderson, founder of the magazine the Little Review. However, she didnt spring forth in Chicago fully formed like Athena from Z

Georgette Leblanc is mainly known as the estranged wife of the Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck, but our audience will remember her as Margaret Andersons lover and the woman whose singing made Jane

While a writer herself, Margaret Anderson stubbornly refused the label, even from her friends, just as she stubbornly refused to ever admit she might be wrong. However, she did write numerous editoria

A side character in the podcasts universe, Noel Murphy is better known for being one of Janet Flanners girlfriends rather than her work during WWII. Its probably due to a life of just chilling while

She escaped her restrictive childhood home and gate kept inheritance by eloping to the Philippines and escaped the Philippines marriage by fleeing out a window in the dead of night. Rather than throu

Gent the pen name of the famous New Yorkers Letter from Paris. Its Janet Flanners best work, but a fifty year work history is not what she wanted to be remembered for. She probably didnt want t

Olga de Meyer: a woman of maddening ambiguity. We hear of her as artists muse, fencer, writer, possible illegitimate child of King Edward VII, and drug addict chasing her youth to the grave. We hear

You may have heard of her in connection to Sylvia Beach last episode. Yes, this time its Adrienne Monnier, the French bookstore owner across the street from Shakespeare and Company. We dive into the