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Charlotte Mew
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 Her Works

 

 

 Biographic Sketch 
Though her life is as gray as her fiction and poetry, Charlotte Mew is reckoned as one of the great English poetesses whose works have long impressed and touched the readers' inner beings.
 
A. Family Background and Education
   

The Mews had suffered very much by the bereavement of losing the family members in death and ever-ridden sickness. Three Mews male children died and Mew's favorite brother, Richard, included. Her eldest brother, Henry and the youngest sister, Freda, remained in mental institution all their lives since early adulthood. Mew and her closest sister, Anne, believed that the family is genetically challenged with the seemingly schizophrenia-related disease, and are hence determined to remain single so that the illness will discontinue. The remaining Mew sisters, therefore, stayed with each other and took care of Mrs. Mew the rest of their life, with their limited resources and meager wages.

Another influential figure for Mew is Lucy Harrison, with whom Mew had strong emotional attachment. A stone-willed and almost capricious child she was, nonetheless, Mew was popular among her friends in view of her humorous and dramatic expressions. She merely studied those subjects that interested her; her strong attachment to Miss Harrison was well known by her parents and friends. When Miss Harrison announced her retirement from her post, Fred Mew implored her to continue her instruction on Mew because he was aware of his daughter's determination and caprice. That eccentricity made the young Mew, upon learning the news of Harrison 's retirement, disturbed the houseful of people by banging her head to the wall. Some biographers are convinced that Harrison influenced on Mew intellectually and emotionally, to an extent that Mew, thence, had the tendency of growing intimate relationship with women mostly.

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B. The Career of a Writer
   

Charlotte Mew strived to fight the financial and emotional constraint all her life, and though her works had brought her friends and fame, she survived with Anne's companion and with the funds from the publication of poetry and short stories or friends' help. In 1922, the Mews were forced to give up their residence on Gordon Street, and during the relocation, Mrs. Mew was hurt and passed away the very next year. Mew took the death of her mother shocking and disoriented. Misery loves company, nevertheless, Mew's lifelong companion – her dearest sister Anne – deceased in 1927; after that Mew acted more eccentric and isolated herself completely. In winter, she grieved for Hardy's death and moved even further away from her friends. With her last will written and expressed that she would like to be buried with her sister Anne, Mew ended her life with poison at the age of fifty-nine.

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 Her Works
 

Though Mew's most eminent works are mostly poems, her short stories appeared early and were published since 1894. In her fictions, there is scare indication of right and wrong. Her depictions of characters, incidents and the plots are realistic, with collaboration of a variety of dialects, social classes and voices from different walk of lives. Her works unveils her sense of ethics, morality, her ambivalent attitude toward religion, involving symbolism and color treatment to demonstrate the imagery, her observation, her doubts about life and her depression that was brought about by consecutive bereavement of loving her beloved family.

Perhaps it was her sorrowful childhood and the ever-lasting sense of solitude, death, loneliness, alienation, anxiety, and frustration are many a time the themes in her fiction and poems. Mew's first short story is "Passed"(1894) depicting a tempestuous girl's reaction upon greeting death, destruction, prostitution and poverty. "The China Bowl"(1899) is about a fisherman torn between his mother and wife, ended up with the tragedy of death and loss. "Mademoiselle"(1904) and "Mark Stafford's Wife"(1905) are both successful portrait of women's frustration in love and in life. "In the Cure's Garden" (1902) and "An Open Door" (1903) reveal Mew's ambiguous response to religion by making the protagonist religious and yet trapped in the dilemma between the religion and real life. "Some Ways of Love" (1901) is about the dilemma of love and duty. "The Smile" (1904) relates with allegory that is violent and tragic in terms of the sense of loss, injustice and the failure of fulfilling the desires that indicates the unquiet mind of Mew. "A Fatal Fidelity" (1953) and "the Wheat" (1954) are often considered two of her best stories because of the realistic setting and plot that revive the dull but conflicting life of the commoners.

Penelope Fitzgerald concluded that Mew was not obsessed with death even though she has made death her themes in most of her works. Mew's imagery-enriched poems may have aroused attention and critical review because of the unconventional patterns of stanza and rhyme. Critic like Humbert Wolfs, however, still highly appreciates her works and believes that Mew's works are free of pretension and genuinely and faithfully present the truth and the realistic.

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