Helen Carr is a journalist and

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of English and

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, University of London. Her book on the imagist movement was described by

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in ''The Guardian'' as "the most comprehensive book on the subject ever written."

Selected publications

*''Inventing the American Primitive: Politics, Gender and the Representation of Native American Literary Traditions, 1789–1936'' (1996) *''The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and The Imagists'' (2009) *''Jean Rhys'' (2011) *''The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster'' (

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) (2021)

References

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'Intemperate and Unchaste': Jean Rhys and Caribbean Creole Identity
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