There is Dwyer Russell (1863-1952), is an actress performing onstage on Broadway and London and an inspiration to her beloved poet Amy Lowell.
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Short biography
Dwyer was born in 1863 by a newly-baptized bookkeeper of Salt Lake City Mormon book, James Dwyer and his wife, Sara Ann Hammer. In 1893 at the age of thirty he married Boston-born actor Harold Russell (living 1859-1927), and they had a daughter Lorna the following year. Their marriage fell apart soon after the birth of Lorna and they entered a life-long separation, though, never legally divorced. Although there is no Dwyer record that denies Mormon religion, he stops being involved, and he stops engaged, and his father is asked to resign in 1913 by top leaders after telling other Salt Lake members that same-sex sexual activity is not a sin.
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Dwyer and Lowell
Nearly two decades after parting from Russell, he met writer Amy Lowell in 1912 while performing an acting tour in Boston to play. Dwyer moved with Lowell in 1914 and their long-term lesbian relationship, or "Boston marriage" (the term for a romantic relationship of the nineteenth century) will last more than a decade until Lowell's death in 1925. Lowell lovingly refers to Dwyer as "mad madam" and loves Dwyer's daughter and grandson as her own. Unfortunately, most of the major documents of communication letters between the two were destroyed by Ada at Amy's request, leaving many unknowns about the details of their life together because they had to hide the nature of their relationship.
Lowell love poems
Russell was the subject of many Lowell poems, and Lowell wanted to dedicate his books to Dwyer who refused except for once in a non-poetry book Lowell wrote, "To A.D.R., This, and all my books A.L." Examples of these love poems to Dwyer include Taxi , Absence , In the Garden , Madonna from Night Flowers , Opal , and Aubade . Amy confesses to John Livingston Lowes that Dwyer is the subject of a series of romantic poems entitled "Two Speak Together". Lowell's poem about Dwyer has been called the most explicit and elegant lesbian love poem for the time between the ancient Sappho and the 1970s poet.
References
External links
- The Hervey Allen Papers at the University of Pittsburgh contain correspondence with Dwyer
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