I know the exact biography you're talking about! I ...found myself reading well against the text in places, and enjoying it more as a result.
It amuses me that you also thought of Millay while reading this. I don't love her quite as hard, now, as I did when younger. But she and H.D. have always been sorted together in my head as the underrated female poets of roughly the same era. H.D. was the one I could never quite *find* things by, or afford things by when I could find them. It's new to me that she was a queer little thing as well, but far from surprising.
::bumps Helen in Egypt higher on The List::
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Though! I have always wondered about Millay's sister's role in over-normalizing her legacy - by all accounts Norma Millay Ellis was very "protective" of Millay's papers &c, and I really wish that there were scholarship unpacking that dynamic. (Or, if said scholarship does exist, that I knew where to look for it.)
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It amuses me that you also thought of Millay while reading this. I don't love her quite as hard, now, as I did when younger. But she and H.D. have always been sorted together in my head as the underrated female poets of roughly the same era. H.D. was the one I could never quite *find* things by, or afford things by when I could find them. It's new to me that she was a queer little thing as well, but far from surprising.
::bumps Helen in Egypt higher on The List::
edited to add:
Though! I have always wondered about Millay's sister's role in over-normalizing her legacy - by all accounts Norma Millay Ellis was very "protective" of Millay's papers &c, and I really wish that there were scholarship unpacking that dynamic. (Or, if said scholarship does exist, that I knew where to look for it.)