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3 unusual facts about Marius Lyle


Marius Lyle

One critic has cited Marius Lyle, along with Edouard Roditi, Charles Henri Ford and Harry Crosby, as a representative writer of the prose poem-dreamscape, which "displays a strong oratorical strain as well as a tendency to dwell on apocalyptic visions and various pyschopathological states.

Marius Lyle was a contributor to transition, an experimental literary journal founded in 1927 by Eugene Jolas.

Born in Crabwall Hall, in the village of Mollington, Cheshire, she was the third of eleven children of Hugh Lyle Smyth (a wealthy grain merchant and a JP who was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1895) and Eliza Smyth.



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