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Bryher (novelist)
English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor
Bryher | |
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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 |
Annie Winifred Ellerman (2 September 1894 – 28 January 1983), known by the pen name Bryher, was an English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor of the Ellerman ship-owning family.
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 Eisenstein’s work to British viewers.
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From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist.
Early life
Bryher was born in September 1894 in Margate. Her father