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  Bryher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bryher (1894-1983) was the pen name of Annie Winnifred Ellerman.
During the 1920s, Bryher was an unconventional figure in Paris, being acquainted or indeed intimate with Ernest Hemingway.
Prior to and during World War II, Bryher and Alice B. Toklas were instrumental in helping hundreds of mainly Jewish refugees ecape from the Nazis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bryher   (230 words)

  
 Paris Press Books: Visa for Avalon/Bryher
Bryher wrote this book forty years ago, but it speaks directly to the politics of today.
When it was first published in 1965, British-born and Switzerland-based Bryher (1894–1983) was a popular historical novelist, but her work has long been out of print, and her fascinating life––she was also a pioneering publisher and philanthropist who helped dozens of Jewish and German intellectuals escape Nazi persecution––has nearly been forgotten.
YA/M: Bryher’s succinct and electrifying tale of people on the run (including a plucky young woman) from a totalitarian regime will captivate teens and serve as a catalyst for discussion.
www.parispress.org /level02/books/visa.html   (535 words)

  
 Travel and tourist information guide to Bryher in the Scilly Isles
Bryher is the smallest community on the Isles of Scilly, a tiny quiet island offering spectacular views, wonderful walking and white sandy beaches.
Boat transfers from St Mary's and Tresco to Bryher are arranged by the hotel and guests are met by the hotel transport on arrival at Bryher.
Travel to Bryher : Boat transfers from St Mary's and Tresco to Bryher are arranged by the hotel and guests are met by the hotel transport on arrival at Bryher.
www.breakswithtradition.com /areas/islandescapes/scillyisles/bryher/bryher.htm   (395 words)

  
 JS Online: Tightly wound 'Visa for Avalon' leaves no room for escape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bryher is a writer of such power and gifts of perception, you wonder why you've never heard of her before.
Apart from her own work, Bryher used her considerable wealth, as the daughter of one of the richest men in England, to promote other experimental and progressive writers, including James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Marianne Moore.
Bryher likely based her story on her own experiences in Berlin during the waning days of the Weimar Republic, and later, on her expulsion from Switzerland in 1940.
www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/oct04/270634.asp?format=print   (606 words)

  
 Alibris: Bryher
In it, Bryher uses her knowledge of history and psychology to examine the eruption of a political...
Her sessions with Freud proved to be the point of transition, the funnel into which she poured her memories of the past and associations in the present--and from which she emerged reborn.
Bryher is perhaps best known today as the lifelong partner of the poet H.D. She was, however, a central figure in modernist and avant-garde cultural experimentation in the early twentieth century; a prolific producer of poetry, novels, autobiography, and criticism; and an intimate and patron of such modernist artists as Gertrude Stein, Marianne...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bryher   (322 words)

  
 Bryher
Bryher's own path-breaking writing has remained largely neglected, long out of print, and inaccessible to those interested in her oeuvre.
Bryher, the daughter of British shipping magnate Sir John Ellerman, traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean with her parents.
She took the name Bryher (from her favourite of the Isles of Scilly) when she began to write because she did not want the eminent family name to influence publishers or critics.
www.queertheory.com /histories/b/bryher.htm   (556 words)

  
 alerts(   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This marriage, according to Bryher, when we spoke of Richardson several years ago in Switzerland, was the mistake of her life.
Yet Dorothy had Bryher, a faithful and consistently loyal supporter, without whom it is easily guessed she would never have written her story of Miriam, her remembrance* of a woman which, commenced in 1906, was viewed from the continuing life of the author with its impoverishment and demands to neglect her talent.
Dorothy repaid Bryher her loyalty and assistance with the manuscript of Pointed Roofs, which Bryher insisted on assessing for the benefit of Dorothy's relatives.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /however/print_archive/alerts0486.html   (1504 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - My Girlfriend, Bryher
One of these people was a person called Bryher Toms, one of the people that had, due to her amazing intellect, been millstoned with the label of "Square".
However there were the facts that a) Bryher's parents weren't told of any of this and b) she hadn't moved back, she was still in a fairly inaccessable place for us to meet regularly.
I have a good relationship with Bryher's parents and her friends, and we are totally in love with each other.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A866522   (1342 words)

  
 Bryher -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She was born in September 1894 in (Red-mouthed grunt found from Florida to Brazil) Margate.
At the age of fourteen she was enrolled in a traditional English boarding school.
During the (The decade from 1920 to 1929) 1920s, Bryher was an unconventional figure in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, being acquainted or indeed intimate with (An American writer of fiction who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)) Ernest Hemingway.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/bryher.htm   (263 words)

  
 Planting the Seeds: Selections from the H.D. Chronology
H.D., BRYHER, AND HELEN WOLLE DOOLITTLE IN VENICE AT THE DANIELI.
H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle sail past Tenedos, Mount Ida?, Mytilene (on the Island of Lesbos)(23) and Skiros.
H.D., Bryher, and Helen Wolle Doolittle arrive in Luxor at 9:00 a.m.; they first go to the Winter Palace Hotel which they find to be crowded and noisy; then they move to the Luxor Hotel; they sleep in the afternoon, then walk and see Karnak by moonlight.
www.imagists.org /hd/hdls221.html   (2830 words)

  
 The Bryher Partnership
The Bryher Partnership is dedicated to helping Clients in the strategic management of their human assets, through rigorous research and application.
The Bryher Partnership are members of several network consultancies, placing us in the unique position of being able to put together the right team to meet Clients' specific needs in a timely and cost-effective manner.
And indeed when one happens upon the tiny Scillonian island of Bryher, shimmering in the blue sea three miles north-west of St Mary's and a third of a mile across New Grimsby Channel from Tresco, one cannot but feel that one has intruded into a world of make-believe.
www.sovereign-publications.com /bryherpartners.htm   (396 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Analyzing Freud: The Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle by H D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Her sessions with Freud proved to be the point of transition, the funnel into which were poured her memories of the past and associations in the present—and from which she emerged reborn.
H.D. came to Freud at the urging of her companion, the novelist Bryher (1884-1983), the daughter of a wealthy British shipping magnate.
At the heart of this collection of correspondences are the letters of the poet H.D. (1886-1961) to her companion, the novelist Bryher, during the time she underwent psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0811214990-0   (463 words)

  
 Letters across the Atlantic : H.D., Bryher, May Sarton, during WW2
Bryher, in Switzerland, was actively helping refugees from Nazi persecution to escape, at much risk to her own safety.
Bryher believed the cause must be psychosomatic and urged her to see an analyst, recommending Dr. Hanns Sachs who had been significantly helpful to her.
Bryher departed from London on the first of April, 1946, returning home to Switzerland with concern, however, at leaving H.D. who had become seriously ill. From the continent, she arranged for H.D. to travel to be nursed back to health in Switzerland.
www.imagists.org /hd/hdcmone.html   (4726 words)

  
 White House
Bryher the smallest community of the Isles of Scilly welcomes the visitor to share its peaceful, yet spectacular island.
Enjoy Bryher for its natural and unspoilt beauty and its complete isolation from the humdrum of modern day life.
Bryher is a friendly island with a small working community.
www.bryher-ios.co.uk /WH/White_House/white_house.html   (382 words)

  
 Bryher the Isles of Scilly @ Cornwall Connect
And, whereas the rugged west coast faces the full force of the open Atlantic, the east coast overlooks the sheltered waters of the channel between Bryher and Tresco.
We are unique among the islands as we have a year round launch service so the other islands are accessible to the Bryher visitor whatever time of year he chooses to take his holiday.
Disco and dances are sometimes held at the Bryher Community Centre, which also provides pool, table-tennis and other recreational facilities for both residents and visitors.
www.chycor.co.uk /scilly/bryher/bryher.htm   (1074 words)

  
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The Isles Of Scilly are situated 28 miles south west of Lands End, in the county of Cornwall.
Bryher is the smallest one of 5 inhabited, out of a group of around 100 small islands, which are surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.
Bryher means ‘Place of Hills’, and there are five of them here, in the 327 acres, and being such a small island, you can walk around it on the coastal paths in about two hours.
members.lycos.co.uk /devonbelle19493/newpage1.html   (415 words)

  
 ScillyOnLine - Introduction to Scilly
Martin's, Bryher and St Agnes, with a combined population of about 2000, and many smaller uninhabited islands and rocky islets.
The islands' position produces a place of great contrast - the ameliorating effect of the sea means we rarely have frost or snow, which allows local farmers to grow flowers well ahead of those on mainland Britain while the exposure to the Atlantic winds means spectacular winter gales lash the islands from time to time.
We are unique among the islands as we have a year round launch service so the other islands are accessible to the Bryher visitor whatever time of year they choose to take their holiday.
www.scillyonline.co.uk /scilly.html   (1724 words)

  
 About Tresco & Bryher : About Tresco & Bryher
The islands of Tresco and Bryher are two of five inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly, found 29 miles south west of Lands End.
Due to the prevailing effects of the Gulf Stream, climate is mild, with sunshine hours generally greater than the UK average, rainfall less, and winter frost and snow unexpected.
This is based on the natural beauty of the islands, supported by the Abbey Garden, the farm and woodlands.
www.tresco.co.uk /about_tresco/default.asp   (307 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Bryher: Two Novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It consists of the first two novels by the British author known as Bryher.
It follows Nancy from the isolation of Developement through her intense longing for a friend who will understand and climaxes with the meeting with "the poet".
Historically the book describes Bryher's first meeting with the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, whom she supported emotionally and financially til death did them part -- And whose daughter she adopted and co-parented).
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0299167704   (674 words)

  
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Meals and drinks are also available in the New Inn on the Bryher side of the island.
Bryher is the smallest of the inhabited islands, but one of complete contrasts.
At one end there are sheltered sandy coves, at the other, on a windy day the waves crash over the rocks at Shipman’s Head and Hell Bay.
www.the-belmont.freeserve.co.uk /page6.html   (155 words)

  
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This shows Hangman Island on the left, and Tresco, which is only a 5 minute boat ride across from Bryher.
Landrovers and quadbikes drive along the beach, to the landing bars.
Bryher's main landing quay, seen at low tide, when boats have to land at Anneks's bar instead.
members.lycos.co.uk /devonbelle19493/photoalbum6.html   (151 words)

  
 Hell Bay, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England TR23 0PR
Hell Bay enjoys a spectacular location on the island of Bryher, the smallest community in the Isles of Scilly that lie 30 miles off the coast of Cornwall.
Accommodation is in spacious, stylish suites with separate sitting area, luxury bathroom and fabulous views, with two-bedroom suites available, ideal for families.
Awarded Two AA Rosettes, dining at the hotel is an integral part of any stay on the island.
www.breakswithtradition.com /areas/islandescapes/scillyisles/bryher/hellbayhotel.htm   (328 words)

  
 Bryher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bryher (born 1894 - died 1983) was the pen name of Annie Winnifred Ellerman.
Although she had entered into a marriage of convenience with the American author Robert McAlmon in 1921, her real partner was the poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D).
The article Superior Guinea Pig: Bryher and Psychoanalysis by Maggie Magee, M.S.W. and Diana C. Miller, M.D. at " class="external">http://laisps.org/GuineaP.html
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/bryher   (232 words)

  
 Welcome to the Bryher website
Telephone numbers and e-mail links are provided on each advertisers site, but if you are looking at the last minute or cannot find a vacancy, phone 01720 422003 to check for availability.
Inclusive Holidays, based here on the island, offer a wide range of package holidays on Bryher and the other islands.
There are 3 options on travel to the islands, ship, helicopter and fixed wing airplane.
www.bryher-ios.co.uk   (190 words)

  
 Bryher Information Online - Property services in and around Bryher, UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If you have any news or information related to Bryher or would like an article to be published in Bryher Information Online, fill in a simple form or send it to us and we will do the rest.
Bryher Information Online is part of the UK information network.
Bryher Information Online is an independent site and is not affiliated with, or officially sponsored by any local authority or tourist information centre based in Bryher.
www.britinfo.net /fp-M-DSO.htm   (238 words)

  
 SkyHigh Adventures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bryher is a small island of amazing extremes with beautiful walks and stunning views.
The sheltered eastern side looks across the safe anchorage of New Grimsby Sound towards Tresco, while the western side is completely open to the full force of the Atlantic.
Even on a day of light winds, the effects of distant storms can be seen along the shore of the aptly named Hell Bay with massive waves making their first landfall after travelling thousands of miles.
www.skyhighadventures.co.uk /gallery/scilly/12.html   (79 words)

  
 Bryher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bryher is the smallest of the inhabited Islands, with a small community.
Although Bryher is a small Island there is a good range of accommodation from a three star hotel, small guest houses to a campsite.
The north side of the Island is rugged and on the south side you will find quiet, secluded bays.
www.islesofscillyhelicopter.com /islands_bryher.html   (87 words)

  
 Bryher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bryher (llevado 1894 - muerto 1983) era el nombre de la pluma de Annie Winnifred Ellerman.
Aunque ella había entrado en un matrimonio de la conveniencia con el autor americano Roberto McAlmon en 1921, su socio verdadero era el poeta Hilda Doolittle (H.D.).
English version: Bryher Next: Imperio En segundo lugar Francés Up
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/br/Bryher.htm   (211 words)

  
 Bryher Information Online -Community information and services around Bryher, UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This section of the site has been designed to provide a means of allowing community services in and around Bryher to publicise themselves and pass on any important information to Bryher residents.
If you have any information that you want to pass on to Bryher residents you can write an article, use the free public notices, or publicise any events in our Bryher events section.
If you are interested in information related to your family history please use our Directory of UK Genealogy sites to find a suitable site.
www.britinfo.net /fp-D-DSO.htm   (427 words)

  
 Bryher II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bryher II I thought this detail of Bryher II looked really cool in the snow.
It wasn't until afterwards, I learned this sculpture was partially inspired by Dag Hammarskjold.
Bryher II is one of several sculptures at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum Sculpture Garden.
rch.drwinters.net /Jan242005.htm   (45 words)

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