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She was born in Bloomsbury, London, the daughter of an architect, Frederick Mew, who designed Hampstead town hall. He died early in her career. Two of her siblings suffered from mental illness, and were committed to institutions, leaving Charlotte and her sister, Anne, who made a pact never to marry for fear of passing on insanity to their children. Charlotte wrote about the subject in several poems. Bloomsbury is an area of central London between Holborn and Euston station, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area. ... Hampstead is an area in the London Borough of Camden. ... City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. ... Mental Illness. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...

In 1894, she succeeded in getting a short story into The Yellow Book, but wrote very little poetry at this time. Her first collection of poetry, The Farmer's Bride, was published in 1916, in chapbook format, by the Poetry Bookshop; in the USA, it was entitled Saturday Market and published in 1921. It earned her the admiration of Sydney Cockerell. Her poems are varied: some of them (such as 'Madeleine in Church') are passionate discussions of faith and the possibility of belief in God; others are proto-modernist in form and atmosphere ('In Nunhead Cemetery'). Mew gained the patronage of several literary figures, notably Thomas Hardy, who called her the best woman poet of her day, Virginia Woolf, who said she was 'very good and quite unlike anyone else', and Siegfried Sassoon, and obtained a small Civil List pension with the aid of Cockerell, Hardy, John Masefield and Walter de la Mare. This helped ease her financial difficulties, but she never achieved the level of fame her patrons felt she deserved. After the death of her sister, she descended into depression, and she was admitted to a nursing home where she committed suicide by drinking disinfectant. 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... This article is in need of attention. ... This page is about the literary journal. ... The Farmers Bride is a collection of poetry by Charlotte Mew. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... A modern day chapbook. ... The Poetry Bookshop, which ran in Bloomsbury, London, from 1913 to 1926, was the brainchild of Harold Monro, and was supported by his moderate income. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962) was a British museum curator, collector, and well-connected figure in the literary world. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... For Modernism in an American context, see American modernism. ... Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) — an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement — delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ... Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist who is regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Siegfried Sassoon, 1916 Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. ... A civil list is a list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government. ... A pension is a steady income given to a person (usually after retirement). ... John Edward Masefield, OM, (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. ... It has been suggested that The Listeners be merged into this article or section. ... Grieving Thai females. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the willful act of killing oneself. ...

References

• Penelope Fitzgerald (2002) Charlotte Mew and Her Friends, Flamingo.
• Charlotte Mew Chronology
• Charlotte Mew in her own words