![]() ![]() She also helped with finance for Sylvia Beach's bookshop Shakespeare and Company and certain publishing ventures, and started a film company Pool Group. ![]() Her wealth enabled her to give financial support to struggling writers, including Joyce and Edith Sitwell. Among her circle of friends were Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach and Berenice Abbott. On one of her travels, Ellerman journeyed to the Isles of Scilly off the southwestern coast of Great Britain and acquired her future pseudonym from her favourite island, Bryher.ĭuring the 1920s, Bryher was an unconventional figure in Paris. At the age of fourteen she was enrolled in a traditional English boarding school and at around this time her mother and father married. He lived with her mother Hannah Glover, but did not marry her until 1908.īryher traveled in Europe as a child, to France, Italy and Egypt. ![]() Her father was the shipowner and financier John Ellerman, who at the time of his death in 1933 was the richest Englishman who had ever lived. Bryher was born in September 1894 in Margate. ![]()
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