Anna Wickham: A Poet's Daring Life

By Jennifer Vaughan Jones

Book Overview

Anna Wickham's life is characterized by the turbulent, burgeoning feminism of the early 20th century. A woman whose incisive mind and inquisitive nature sent her husband into jealous rages, she was forcibly committed to a mental hospital at the age of 30. Upon her release, she began a life-long quest for happiness, exhibited first and foremost through her poetry. Anna Wickham became a widely acclaimed writer whose life, at times immersed in scandal, is a story of success and sadness. Eventually leaving her husband and four sons to live in Paris's left bank, she became a confidante of D.H. Lawrence, the long-time lover of millionairess Natalie Clifford Barney, and a strong-willed literary icon, rumored to have once thrown Dylan Thomas into a snowstorm. Despite her fame and achievement, Wickham's struggles with depression and anxiety would eventually lead to her untimely death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156833253X
• ISBN13: 9781568332536
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Madison Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.7"