Charlotte Mew

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Charlotte Mary Mew (1900)

Charlotte Mary Mew (born November 15, 1869 in London , † March 24, 1928 there ) was an English poet .

Life and work

Charlotte Mew's father Frederick was an architect, her mother Anna Maria came from a wealthy family. Charlotte had six siblings, three of whom died in childhood and two were admitted to a psychiatric clinic as adolescents . When her father died in 1898, the family became impoverished. Mew's life is therefore considered to be unhappy and characterized by fear of mental disorders . In order not to pass on a suspected "family disorder", she and her sister Anne remained unmarried and childless.

Mew, who lived around the turn of the Victorian era to the modern age , was devoted to feminist ideas. She attended lectures at University College London , traveled alone through France, wore her hair short, dressed brightly and smoked cigarettes. There are suspicions about a homosexual orientation mews.

In 1894 she published her first short story in The Yellow Book , further stories, essays and v. a. Poems in other magazines followed. Her first collection of poems appeared in England in 1915 and, among other titles, in the United States in 1921. Mew's lyrical work is thematically shaped by suffering and death. She experimented with shapes, images and language, which earned her such well-known admirers as HD , Thomas Hardy , Ezra Pound , Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf .

She committed suicide on March 24, 1928 while staying in a nursing home following a breakdown.

Works (selection)

  • 1915: Farmer's Bride
  • 1929: The Rambling Sailor

literature

  • Penelope Fitzgerald , Charlotte Mew and Her Friends . New York 1988.
  • Sandra Carol Joiner, Charlotte Mew: An Introduction . Bowling Green 1989.

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Mew  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography and selected poems
  2. ^ Entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. ↑ Information on life and work ( Memento from November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mew, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mew, Charlotte Mary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1928
Place of death London