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This significant primary source will be valued by students of modernism and feminist literature. --Choice The definitive publication of [H.D.'s] autobiographical work--finally available in its uncut, minimally revised form. The Gift includes such intimate views as H. D.'s family life, never-before-published pictures of her family, and statements of her beliefs and innermost thoughts. --Foreword Reviews Raised in a Moravian family in Pennsylvania, [H.D.] worked on this psychologically complex memoir of her childhood in London--to which she expatriated in her early teens--as WWII's bombs rained down. . . . Editor and annotator Jane Augustine's well-researched scholarly edition restores the text to its full length and includes H.D.'s own notes. --Publishers Weekly Readers have been gifted indeed by publication of the definitive text, superbly annotated and edited with scholarly excellence by Jane Augustine. --English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

This significant primary source will be valued by students of modernism and feminist literature. - Choice The definitive publication of [H.D.'s] autobiographical work-finally available in its uncut, minimally revised form. The Gift includes such intimate views as H. D.'s family life, never-before-published pictures of her family, and statements of her beliefs and innermost thoughts. - Foreword Reviews Raised in a Moravian family in Pennsylvania, [H.D.] worked on this psychologically complex memoir of her childhood in London-to which she expatriated in her early teens-as WWII's bombs rained down. . . . Editor and annotator Jane Augustine's well-researched scholarly edition restores the text to its full length and includes H.D.'s own notes. - Publishers Weekly Readers have been gifted indeed by publication of the definitive text, superbly annotated and edited with scholarly excellence by Jane Augustine. - English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

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H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961) was an American expatriate writer whose work exerted enormous influence on modernist poetry and prose. Jane Augustine is professor emeritus of English and humanities at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, and has held the H.D. Fellowship in American Literature at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, the site of H.D.'s collected papers. She is also the editor of H.D.'s The Mystery.

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