Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham's life is characterized by the turbulent burgeoning feminism of the early 20th century. A woman whose incisive mind and inquisitive nature sent her husband into jealous rages she was forcibly committed to a mental hospital at the age of 30. Upon her release she began a life-long quest for happiness exhibited first and foremost through her poetry. Anna Wickham became a widely acclaimed writer whose life at times immersed in scandal is a story of success and sadness. Eventually leaving her husband and four sons to live in Paris's left bank she became a confidante of D.H. Lawrence the long-time lover of millionairess Natalie Clifford Barney and a strong-willed literary icon rumored to have once thrown Dylan Thomas into a snowstorm. Despite her fame and achievement Wickham's struggles with depression and anxiety would eventually lead to her untimely death.