American poet Hilda Doolittle, also known as H. D., was BOTD in 1886. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to a wealthy middle -class family, she studied at Bryn Mawr College where she had her first lesbian relationship with poet Marianne Moore. She formed a relationship with fellow poet Ezra Pound, following him to London where they led the Imagist poetry movement. She edited the literary journal Egoist, marrying her co-editor Richard Aldington in 1913, separating at the end of World War One. She published her first poetry volume Sea Garden in 1916, establishing her as a leading voice among the Imagists. Favouring free verse and minimalist language with clear sharp language, her themes often drew on Classical Greek mythology. She also worked on translations of the Greek dramatist Euripides. After the war, she moved to Cornwall with the composer Cecil Gray, separating soon after giving birth to a daughter. Soon after she met Annie Ellerman, known as Bryher, an heiress and writer who became her life partner. Doolittle lived in an open relationship with Bryher and the latter’s husband Robert McAlmon, travelling to Egypt in 1923 before settling in Zurich, Switzerland. In the late 1920s she made and starred in the experimental film Borderline with African-American actor Paul Robeson. She spent many years in psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, which influenced her later work, publishing a book-length tribute to him in 1956. In 1960, she became the first female poet to be awarded an honour from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in 1961, aged 75. Her reputation was overshadowed by Pound for many years, but was reappraised by feminist critics in the 1970s. She is now considered one of the foremost poets of the Imagist and Modernist movements.