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Next to Tresco is the island of Bryher, which is smaller, wilder and more egalitarian.
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For example, you could take her to heavenly Hell's Bay 01720 422947, hellbay.co.uk, £135pp–£180pp a night; quote "Mother's Day Special" when booking on the Scilly Isle of Bryher for three nights over that weekend and mum gets her accommodation, dinner, breakfast, champagne, flowers and chocolates free on Mother's Day.
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Bryher to the contrary, I completely got over my first camel.
Decade: Some Books 2010
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One February dusk I saw one drop hurriedly from the blasting Atlantic sky into a tiny garden of three or four stunted trees on Bryher on the Scilly Isles—about as far from the unending forests of the taiga as I could imagine.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Also at the Times, Margaret Atwood writes a review of a republication of Visa for Avalon by Bryher.
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Then, out of curiosity, I asked various well-read friends about her, and the general response was something to the effect of, "Oh, Bryher, you mean H.D.'s partner?"
Bryher 2006
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A spate of feminist scholarship about H.D. & other modernist women writers & poets as well as New Directions' publication of _HERmione_ in 1981 helped bring Bryher onto the radar of US feminist scholars & readers.
Bryher 2006
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Paris Press has been bringing out books by Bryher, a writer who was in danger of disappearing beneath the shadow of her partner, the poet H.D., but Bryher's own work deserves and rewards attention.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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She became she said "Freud's pupil" and Freud called her his "analysand" and she wrote one of her better poems about it, Tribute to Freud, and Hilda was so f-ing sexual she was bi, couldn't resist screwing men, yet, she was only faithful to Annie Winifred Ellerman "Bryher" from 1918 when they met in Paris until H.D. kicked the bucket in 1961 when she was nearing 80.
Lesbians The Daily Growler 2006
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It may be the case that Bryher was a household name for decades in the UK perhaps you can tell me whether that is so; I do know that some of her novels were published in the 1960s, but many of us in the US came to hear of Bryher & her work largely because of the critical re-emergence of H.D. in the early 1980s.
Bryher 2006
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