Mary Butts
Butts was an experimental modernist writer whose fiction, particularly Armed with Madness, combines Greek mythology, Arthurian legend, and psychological modernism in a distinctive if demanding manner. She was part of the Paris avant-garde circle.
Works
- Armed with MadnessNovel of bohemian artists and occultism in rural England between the wars
- Ashe of RingsNovel exploring ancient mysticism and desire among bohemian circles
- Death of Felicity Taverner
- Scenes from the Life of CleopatraNovella reimagining the life of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra
- The Macedonian