Bryher (1894-1983) was the pen name of the novelist, poet, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman. During the 1920s, Bryher was an unconventional figure in Paris; Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, and Berenice Abbott were all in her circle of friends. Her wealth enabled her to give financial support to struggling writers, including Joyce and Edith Sitwell; she also financed a number of publishing ventures and started a film company, Pool Group.
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The war that began in 218 BC with Hannibal’s march across the Alps is one of the familiar stories of history, but its details are little known. A struggle between an emerging barbarian power and an old culture, it pitted a Roman army of mostly farme... SEE MORE