Mary Butts - A Short Story Collection: Popular dark humour and modernist author that has been sadly forgotten by time
Written by Mary Butts
Narrated by David Shaw-Parker
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About this audiobook
Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour. Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls in St Andrews.
Her mother remarried and, from 1909, Mary studied at Westfield College in London, and here, first became aware of her bisexual feelings. She was sent down for organising a trip to Epsom races and only completed her degree in 1914 when she graduated from the London School of Economics. By then Mary had become an admirer of the occultist Aleister Crowley and she was given a co-authorship credit on his ‘Magick (Book 4)’.
In 1916, she began the diary which would now detail her future life and be a constant reference point for her observations and her absorbing experiences.
During World War I, she was doing social work for the London County Council in Hackney Wick, and involved in a lesbian relationship. Life changed after meeting the modernist poet, John Rodker and they married in 1918.
In 1921 she spent 3 months at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily; she found the practices dreadful and also acquired a drug habit. Mary now spent time writing in Dorset, including her celebrated book of short stories ‘Speed the Plough’ which saw fully develop her unique Modernist prose style.
Europe now beckoned and several years were spent in Paris befriending many artists and writing further extraordinary stories.
She was continually sought after by literary magazines and also published several short story collections as books. Although a Modernist writer she worked in other genres but is essentially only known for her short stories. Mary was deeply committed to nature conservation and wrote several pamphlets attacking the growing pollution of the countryside.
In 1927, she divorced and the following year her novel ‘Armed with Madness’ was published. A further marriage followed in 1930 and time was spent attempting to settle in London and Newcastle before setting up home on the western tip of Cornwall. By 1934 the marriage had failed.
Mary Butts died on 5th March 1937, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, after an operation for a perforated gastric ulcer. She was 46.
1 - Mary Butts - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction
2 - Speed the Plough by Mary Butts
3 - Magic by Mary Butts
4 - In The South by Mary Butts
5 - The Dinner Party by Mary Butts
6 - Bellerophon To Anteia by Mary Butts
7 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts
8 - Angele Au Couvent by Mary Butts
9 - Brightness Falls by Mary Butts
10 - The Saint by Mary Butts
11 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts
12 - In Bayswater - Part 1 by Mary Butts
13 - In Bayswater - Part 2 by Mary Butts
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