This site, lovingly written and maintained by Heather Hawkins, includes useful biographical and bibliographic information, e-texts of two children's stories by H.D., and links to other H.D. resources on the net, such as the H.D. exhibit at the Academy of American Poets Web Site and the H.D. and Marianne Moore Web Site.

The Pink Moth
http://www.idiom.com/~didogart/hilda/hdindex.html

Louise Bialik's excellent, well-designed site contains an enormous amount of information on H.D. and her work. The site is organized under several categories of interest: Contemporaries, Form & Style, Interests, Terms & History, and Biography. The overall picture is comprehensive and informed. The site also includes e-texts of H.D.'s poetry. If you make one stop on the net for H.D., this should be it.

BIOGRAPHY
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), who used her initials H.D. as a writer, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. When she was still at school she became engaged to the young poet Ezra Pound, who was studying at the University of Pennsylvania. Her engagement to Pound ended, but later, after poor grades and ill health forced her to leave Bryn Mawr College in her sophomore year, she met Pound again in London in 1911 and became a member of the literary movement he was founding, called imagism.

Her life in London was turbulent and unhappy. She married one of the imagist group, Richard Aldington, but he began an affair with another woman after H.D. had a miscarriage, and she ended the marriage, desperately poor and ill. For several months she was emotionally dependent upon the writer D. H. Lawrence, but he abruptly ended the relationship. Finally, in 1919, when H.D. was pregnant after a brief affair with a new lover she was rescued by a wealthy English writer named Winifred Ellerman, who wrote under the name of Bryher. Bryher took over her life, and they remained together, despite occasional separations, until 1946, when their relationship ended.

H.D. wrote continually, though for many years she felt she had exhausted her themes and refused to publish. In 1960 she was the first woman to receive the Award of Merit Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.