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Mary Butts

Born

in Poole, Dorset, England, The United Kingdom

December 13, 1890

Died

March 05, 1937

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Aleister Crowley, Jean Cocteau

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Mary Francis Butts was a modernist writer whose work found recognition in important literary magazines of the time, as well as from some of her fellow modernists, T. S. Eliot, Hilda Dolittle, and Bryher. After her death, her works fell into obscurity until they began to be republished in the 1980s.

Butts was a student of the occultist Aleister Crowley, and as one of several students who worked with him on his Magick (Book 4) in 1912, she was given co-author credit. She was married to poet, publisher, and pacifist John Rodker from 1918 to 1927; their daughter, Camilla, was born in 1920.

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	Armed With Madness 3.54 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1928 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner 3.86 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings by Mary Butts, Nathalie Blondell (Preface by) 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood At Salterns 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1937 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classical Novels (Recovered Classics) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Altar to Chimney-Piece: Selected Stories 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journals of Mary Butts by Mary Butts, Nathalie Blondel (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bloomsbury e altri racconti by Mary Butts, Giulia Betti (Translator) , Cristina Pascotto (Translator) 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginary letters by Mary Butts, Jean Cocteau , Robin Blaser 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back with the sun, its wave turn-over small, delicate and comfortless. The most glorious of all stars hung above the sun's threshold and went out. An hour later the sun governed the earth again, mist-chasing, flower-opening, bird-rousing, ghost-driving, spirit-shepherding back out the various gates of sleep.”
― Mary Butts, The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

tags: dawn, day, nature, night, stars, sunrise, the-death-of-felicity-taverner

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“Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.”
― Mary Butts, The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

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“He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.”
― Mary Butts, The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

tags: dissembling, excuses, justification, lying, objectivity, responsibility, stories

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