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3 unusual facts about Dorothy Shakespear


Dorothy Shakespear

Her mother Olivia Shakespear, born on the Isle of Wight, lived her early years in Sussex and later in London where she, with her sister Florence, was raised to live a life of leisure.

Instead they lived with W.B. Yeats at Stone Cottage for the winter, where Pound worked on proofs for the second issue of BLAST magazine.

One of small number of women vorticist painters, she had art work published in the short-lived but influential literary magazine BLAST.



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