Susan McCabe is a professor of English and Creative Writing at USC, and has published Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss (1994) and Cinematic Modernism (2005) and received as well the Agha Shahid Prize for a book of poems, Descartes' Nightmare (2008).

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsDramatis Personae The Voyage Out 1886-1915Chapter 1 The Meeting: "We Too" and ModernismChapter 2 H.D.'s Ancestral CircleChapter 3 Bryher's Family ClosetLINE 1 FLORIDE 1909-1919Chapter 4 Sentimental EducationsChapter 5 Love & Art: Being Phantoms TogetherChapter 6 Romance of Rescue & "The Jellyfish Experience"LINE 2 BORODINO 1920-1928Chapter 7 Parting of the Veil: Greece, 1920 . . .Chapter 8 Questing America & Marianne MooreChapter 9 Inconvenient Marriages & WanderlustChapter 10 Cinematics: We Three LINE 3: PSYCHOANALYSIS 1929-1939Chapter 11 Film Morphing into BorderlineChapter 12 Enter Freud: Dreaming through the HousesChapter 13 Death Drive & "the Perfect Bi"Chapter 14 "Group Consciousness" & IONChapter 15 Abdication, Aggression, AnschlussLINE 4: Blitz 1939-1945Chapter 16 Twilight Zone & "the combined UNK"Chapter 17 Walls Falling & the Drive InwardChapter 18 Séance NightsChapter 19 THE WRITING ON THE WALLLINE 5: Viking 1946-1961 . . . . . . .Chapter 20 Losing One's Mind to Find ItChapter 21 Tidying up ModernismChapter 22 Cold War RomancesChapter 23 Recovery & Illuminations 1953- BibliographyIndex

McCabe is intimately alert to the ever-shifting world that H. D. and Bryher occupied. The biography is a helpful guide to the signs, symbols, nicknames and ménages à trois that helped the couple to understand and protect themselves as a family unit over four decades.

Susan McCabe is a professor of English and Creative Writing at USC, and has published Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss (1994) and Cinematic Modernism (2005) and received as well the Agha Shahid Prize for a book of poems, Descartes' Nightmare (2008).

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsDramatis Personae The Voyage Out 1886-1915Chapter 1 The Meeting: "We Too" and ModernismChapter 2 H.D.'s Ancestral CircleChapter 3 Bryher's Family ClosetLINE 1 FLORIDE 1909-1919Chapter 4 Sentimental EducationsChapter 5 Love & Art: Being Phantoms TogetherChapter 6 Romance of Rescue & "The Jellyfish Experience"LINE 2 BORODINO 1920-1928Chapter 7 Parting of the Veil: Greece, 1920 . . .Chapter 8 Questing America & Marianne MooreChapter 9 Inconvenient Marriages & WanderlustChapter 10 Cinematics: We Three LINE 3: PSYCHOANALYSIS 1929-1939Chapter 11 Film Morphing into BorderlineChapter 12 Enter Freud: Dreaming through the HousesChapter 13 Death Drive & "the Perfect Bi"Chapter 14 "Group Consciousness" & IONChapter 15 Abdication, Aggression, AnschlussLINE 4: Blitz 1939-1945Chapter 16 Twilight Zone & "the combined UNK"Chapter 17 Walls Falling & the Drive InwardChapter 18 Séance NightsChapter 19 THE WRITING ON THE WALLLINE 5: Viking 1946-1961 . . . . . . .Chapter 20 Losing One's Mind to Find ItChapter 21 Tidying up ModernismChapter 22 Cold War RomancesChapter 23 Recovery & Illuminations 1953- BibliographyIndex

McCabe is intimately alert to the ever-shifting world that H. D. and Bryher occupied. The biography is a helpful guide to the signs, symbols, nicknames and ménages à trois that helped the couple to understand and protect themselves as a family unit over four decades.

Susan McCabe is a professor of English and Creative Writing at USC, and has published Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss (1994) and Cinematic Modernism (2005) and received as well the Agha Shahid Prize for a book of poems, Descartes' Nightmare (2008).

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsDramatis Personae The Voyage Out 1886-1915Chapter 1 The Meeting: "We Too" and ModernismChapter 2 H.D.'s Ancestral CircleChapter 3 Bryher's Family ClosetLINE 1 FLORIDE 1909-1919Chapter 4 Sentimental EducationsChapter 5 Love & Art: Being Phantoms TogetherChapter 6 Romance of Rescue & "The Jellyfish Experience"LINE 2 BORODINO 1920-1928Chapter 7 Parting of the Veil: Greece, 1920 . . .Chapter 8 Questing America & Marianne MooreChapter 9 Inconvenient Marriages & WanderlustChapter 10 Cinematics: We Three LINE 3: PSYCHOANALYSIS 1929-1939Chapter 11 Film Morphing into BorderlineChapter 12 Enter Freud: Dreaming through the HousesChapter 13 Death Drive & "the Perfect Bi"Chapter 14 "Group Consciousness" & IONChapter 15 Abdication, Aggression, AnschlussLINE 4: Blitz 1939-1945Chapter 16 Twilight Zone & "the combined UNK"Chapter 17 Walls Falling & the Drive InwardChapter 18 Séance NightsChapter 19 THE WRITING ON THE WALLLINE 5: Viking 1946-1961 . . . . . . .Chapter 20 Losing One's Mind to Find ItChapter 21 Tidying up ModernismChapter 22 Cold War RomancesChapter 23 Recovery & Illuminations 1953- BibliographyIndex

McCabe is intimately alert to the ever-shifting world that H. D. and Bryher occupied. The biography is a helpful guide to the signs, symbols, nicknames and ménages à trois that helped the couple to understand and protect themselves as a family unit over four decades.