The most expensive book I ever bought was a copy of Bryher's edition of Mary Butts' Last Stories - which is a roundabout way of asking if you have ever come across Butts?
I used to be married to her biographer, and read a lot of her work in consequence, and I think you'd appreciate it. She's poetic and classical in the same way as Bryher and HD, but there are many other fascinating ingredients there as well: an early passion for Jane Harrison, a sojourn with Crowley at Thelema, publishing Eliot and Pound on a small press, a Parisian '20s, a Cornish '30s.
There's a handful of novels, of which I'd particularly recommend Armed with Madness (1928) and Death of Felicity Taverner (1932), although her novels about Alexander and Cleopatra are well worth reading; and there are poems too, but I think her short stories show her to best advantage.
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I used to be married to her biographer, and read a lot of her work in consequence, and I think you'd appreciate it. She's poetic and classical in the same way as Bryher and HD, but there are many other fascinating ingredients there as well: an early passion for Jane Harrison, a sojourn with Crowley at Thelema, publishing Eliot and Pound on a small press, a Parisian '20s, a Cornish '30s.
There's a handful of novels, of which I'd particularly recommend Armed with Madness (1928) and Death of Felicity Taverner (1932), although her novels about Alexander and Cleopatra are well worth reading; and there are poems too, but I think her short stories show her to best advantage.