Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings

The English novelist, poet and critic Mary Butts (1890-1937) is one of the most enigmatic of the early Modernists, and the last great lost writer of the era. During the 1920s and 1930s she was as well-known and highly regarded in England as her now more famous contemporaries: H.D., Katherine Mansfield, Mina Loy, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle. She was a writer of high energy and an original style, and possessed particular insight into the generation which survived the First World War. McPherson & Company has been reissuing her works in uniform, newly edited volumes since 1992.