Charlotte Mew Context
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- Created on: 11-02-19 14:30
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- Charlotte Mew
- Childhood and Family
- Born in London in 1869
- One of seven children
- Two of her sisters suffered severe mental illness
- Were sectioned
- Three others dies young
- Left 'Lotti', her sister and her mother
- Two of her sisters suffered severe mental illness
- Father died in 1898
- Didn't leave adequate provisions for his children
- Lotti and her sister Anne made a pact never to marry
- Didn't want to pass on their 'insanity' to children
- Poetry
- Some poetry is passionate and religious
- Other work is more modern for her time
- Many poems are dramatic monologues
- Often wrote from a male perspective
- Some work was about outcasts
- Expressed her alienation she felt from her community
- Persona
- Wore masculine clothes
- Kept her hair short
- Many think she was a lesbian
- Death
- Anne died of cancer in 1927
- Charlotte fell into a deep despression
- Admitted to a nursing home
- Committed suicide by drinking Lysol in 1928
- Childhood and Family
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