夏洛特·纽

诗人的传记

她出生在伦敦的布卢姆斯伯里，是建筑师弗雷德里克·纽的女儿，他设计了汉普斯特德市政厅。她的父亲于1898年去世，没有给家人留下足够的财产;她的两个兄弟姐妹患有精神疾病，被送进了精神病院，另外三个在童年早期就去世了，留下了夏洛特、她的母亲和她的妹妹安妮。夏洛特和安妮约定不结婚，因为害怕把精神错乱传给孩子。(一位作者称夏洛特为“纯洁的女同性恋”。)1894年，纽成功地把一篇短篇小说放进了《黄皮书》，但当时他几乎没有写诗。她的第一部诗集《农夫的新娘》于1916年由诗歌书店以小册子的形式出版;在美国，这本书被命名为《星期六市场》，出版于1921年。这为她赢得了西德尼·科克雷尔的赞赏。她的诗歌多种多样:其中一些(如《玛德琳在教堂》)是对信仰和信仰上帝的可能性的热烈讨论; others are proto-modernist in form and atmosphere ('In Nunhead Cemetery'). Mew gained the patronage of several literary figures, notably Thomas Hardy, who called her the best woman poet of her day, Virginia Woolf, who said she was 'very good and quite unlike anyone else', and Siegfried Sassoon. She obtained a small Civil List pension with the aid of Cockerell, Hardy, John Masefield and Walter de la Mare. This helped ease her financial difficulties. After the death of her sister, she descended into a deep depression, and was admitted to a nursing home where she eventually committed suicide by drinking Lysol. Mew is buried in the northern part of Hampstead Cemetery, London NW6.