Mary Butts, Writers, Novels and short stories
Mary Franeis Butts (13 December 1890 – 5 March 1937) was a British modernist writer. Her work found recognition in important literary magazines such as The Bookman and The Little Review, as well as from some of her fellow modernists, T. S. Eliot, H.D. and Bryher. After her death, her works fell into obscurity until they began to be republished in the 1980s.
Butts was a student of the author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and as one of several students who worked with him on his Magick (Book 4) in 1912, she was given co-authorship credit.
Butts was born in Poole, Dorset. Her father died in 1904, after which she had a boarding school education in St Andrews. She studied at Westfield College, but did not complete a degree there. In the first years of World War I she was living in London, England, undertaking social work for the London County Council in Hackney Wick, and in a lesbian relationship. She then met modernist poet John Rodker, whom she later married. Writers - A writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.
The word is almost synonymous with author, though somebody who writes, for example, a laundry list, could technically be called the writer of the list, but not an author. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images, whether fiction or non-fiction.
A writer may compose in many different forms including (but certainly not limited to) poetry, prose, or music. Accordingly, a writer in specialist mode may rank as a poet, novelist, copywriter, composer, lyricist, playwright, mythographer, journalist, screenwriter for film or television, etc. (See also: creative writing, technical writing and academic papers.)
Writers' output frequently contributes to the cultural content of a society, and that society may value its literature as art. Novels and short stories - A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century.
The further definition of the genre is historically difficult. Most of the criteria (such as artistic merit, fictionality, a design to create an epic totality of life, a focus on history and the individual)are arbitrary and designed to raise further debates over qualities that will supposedly separate great works of literature both from a wider and lower "trivial" production and from the field of true histories.
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format.This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or books. Short story definitions based upon length differ somewhat by genre