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MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT (1892-1950, American poet)
8 May 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,200
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MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT (1892-1950, American poet)
PORTRAIT BY AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER [but taken for promotional purposes by the National Broadcasting Company, New York, in 1942], vintage photograph, silver print, showing Millay, three-quarter length, turned to the right, half kneeling next to a sofa and hearth, looking away to the left, holding a typescript [the text of her poem 'The Murder of Lidice'], framed and glazed, size of image 8 ½ x 6 ½ inches (21 x 16 cm), overall size 15 x 12 ½ inches (38 x 32 cm), [1942]
No reproduction of this image of Millay has been found.
Another image from the same shoot bore the note (which is relavent to lots 326 and 327 as well), dated 1 October 1942: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay. America's foremost woman poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, has written a dramatic poem, 'The Murder of Lidice', which is to be presented by the National Broadcasting Company on Monday, October 19. The poem deals with the destruction by the Nazis of the little Czech village of Lidace.' A note with the present lot (also applying to the two following lots) is present here about a repaet performance by Millay, dated 29 December 1942. W. Nancy Mitford, Millay, Savage Beast, The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, noted: 'When the outrage of Lidice reached America, Rex Stout, president of the Writers' War Board, asked Millay, whom he knew from their days in the [Greenwich] Village, to write a poem to help ensure that Lidice would never be forgotten...It was astonishing that Millay was able to write at all, given the amount of drugs she was taking.' (See Roy Davids Collection, Part II]).
No reproduction of this image of Millay has been found.
Another image from the same shoot bore the note (which is relavent to lots 326 and 327 as well), dated 1 October 1942: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay. America's foremost woman poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, has written a dramatic poem, 'The Murder of Lidice', which is to be presented by the National Broadcasting Company on Monday, October 19. The poem deals with the destruction by the Nazis of the little Czech village of Lidace.' A note with the present lot (also applying to the two following lots) is present here about a repaet performance by Millay, dated 29 December 1942. W. Nancy Mitford, Millay, Savage Beast, The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, noted: 'When the outrage of Lidice reached America, Rex Stout, president of the Writers' War Board, asked Millay, whom he knew from their days in the [Greenwich] Village, to write a poem to help ensure that Lidice would never be forgotten...It was astonishing that Millay was able to write at all, given the amount of drugs she was taking.' (See Roy Davids Collection, Part II]).