Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mary Mew (* November 15, 1869 in London, † March 24, 1928 ibid ) was an English poet.
Life and work
Charlotte Mews father Frederick was an architect, her mother Anna Maria came from a wealthy family. Charlotte had six siblings, however, three of whom died in infancy and two were admitted at a young age in a psychiatric hospital. When her father died in 1898, impoverished the family. Therefore Mews life is considered to be unhappy and marked by the fear of mental disorders. In order not to bequeath a suspected " family disturbance " on, she and her sister Anne remained unmarried and childless.
Mew, who lived at the turn of the Victorian era to modern times, was devoted to feminist ideas. She attended lectures at University College London, traveled alone through France, wore their hair short, dressed conspicuously and smoked cigarettes. There are assumptions about a homosexual orientation Mews.
In 1894 she published her first short story in The Yellow Book, more stories, essays, and especially Poems in other magazines followed. Her first collection of poems appeared in 1915 in England and 1921, among other titles, in the United States. Mews lyrical work is thematically marked by suffering and death. She experimented with shapes, images, and language, which earned her such famous admirers such as HD, Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf.
During a stay in a nursing home as a result of a breakdown, she committed suicide on March 24, 1928.