The Gift by H.D.

This significant primary source will be valued by students of modernism and feminist literature." - Choice

"The definitive publication of [H.D.'s] autobiographical work—finally available in its uncut, minimally revised form. The Gift includes such intimate views as H. D.'s family life, never-before-published pictures of her family, and statements of her beliefs and innermost thoughts." - Foreword Reviews

"Raised in a Moravian family in Pennsylvania, [H.D.] worked on this psychologically complex memoir of her childhood in London--to which she expatriated in her early teens--as WWII's bombs rained down. . . . Editor and annotator Jane Augustine's well-researched scholarly edition restores the text to its full length and includes H.D.'s own notes." - Publishers Weekly

"Readers have been gifted indeed by publication of the definitive text, superbly annotated and edited with scholarly excellence by Jane Augustine." - English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920