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So, you’re wondering how HD got that moniker? And no, we’re not talking about high definition television. HD, also known as Hilda Doolittle, was an Imagist poet and novelist. She’s known more in connection to other writers like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and for an unfortunate kink incident involving early psychologist Havelock Ellis.
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
The Heart to Artemis: a Writer’s Memoirs by Bryher
Herself Defined: The poet H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank by Andrea Weiss
Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940 by Shari Benstock
Handwritten letter, 1960 March 14 to Katharine McBride from H.D., H.D. and Bryher Papers, Bryn Mawr College.
Handwritten letter, 1960 June 11 to Katharine McBride from H.D., H.D. and Bryher Papers, Bryn Mawr College.
Handwritten letter, 1960 June 11 to Katharine McBride from Mary Herr, H.D. and Bryher Papers, Bryn Mawr College.