| H. D.  AKA Hilda Doolittle
Born: 10-Sep-1886
Birthplace: Bethlehem, PA
Died: 27-Sep-1961
Location of death: Zürich, Switzerland
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Cremated, Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Poet Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Imagist poet, Sea Garden Father: Charles Leander Doolittle (astronomy professor, d. 1919 stroke)
Mother: Helen Wolle
Brother: Gilbert (d. 1918 war)
Engagement: Ezra Pound (poet, engaged 1907-08)
Girlfriend: Frances Josepha Gregg (1910-11)
Husband: Richard Aldington (poet, b. 1892, m. 18-Oct-1913, sep. 1919, div. 1938, d. 1962, one daughter)
Daughter: (d. 1915 childbirth)
Slept with: Cecil Gray (one daughter)
Daughter: Frances Perdita Aldington (b. 31-Mar-1919)
Girlfriend: Bryher (poet, b. 1894, cohabited 1919-46, d. 1983)
Boyfriend: Kenneth Macpherson (poet, 1926-32)
High School: Friends Central High School, Philadelphia, PA (1903)
University: Bryn Mawr College (dropped out)
University: University of Pennsylvania
Nervous Breakdown 1910
Nervous Breakdown 1919
Nervous Breakdown 1920
Abortion 1928
Nervous Breakdown 1930
Nervous Breakdown Switzerland (Jun-1933)
Nervous Breakdown 1946
Shock Treatment
Stroke Zurich, Switzerland (6-Jun-1961)
Paralyzed right side (6-Jun-1961)
Moravian Ancestry Maternal
Author of books:
Sea Garden (1916, poetry)
The Tribute And Circe: Two Poems (1917, poetry)
Hymen (1921, poetry)
Heliodora and Other Poems (1924, poetry)
Palimpsest (1926, novel)
HERmione (1927, novel, pub. 1981 posthumously)
Hedylus (1928, novel)
Red Roses for Bronze (1931, poetry)
Nights (1935, novel)
The Hedgehog (1936, juvenile)
The Walls do not Fall (1944, poetry, part 1 of Trilogy)
Tribute to the Angels (1945, poetry, part 2 of Trilogy)
The Flowering of the Rod (1946, poetry, part 3 of Trilogy)
By Avon River (1949, poetry)
Bid Me to Live (1960, novel)
Helen in Egypt (1961, poetry)
Hermetic Definition (1972, poetry, pub. posthumously)
Paint It Today (1992, novel, pub. posthumously)
Asphodel (1992, novel, pub. posthumously)
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