Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle, who signed H.D., was born in 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to an astronomer father and a mother from the Moravian community. She left Bryn Mawr in 1906 without a degree, was for a time engaged to Ezra Pound and settled in England in 1911. She married Richard Aldington in 1913, assisted with the editing of a London review, appeared in a film and remained for more than forty years close to the writer Bryher, who supported her. Analysed by Freud in 1933 and 1934, she lived in London during the war, then mostly in Switzerland, and died in Zurich in 1961.

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• PoetrySea GardenHilda Doolittle · 1916Literature