Alyse Gregory

Barbara Ozieblo (Universidad de Malaga)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

Born 19 Jul 1884
Died 27 Aug 1967
Activity 1920-1948

Places

Born in United States
Active in England; United States

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Editor
Essayist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist

Other

Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Letter-writer/ Diarist

Resources

Gregory's Works

Save to Bookshelf

Alyse Gregory, author of numerous critical, literary and feminist essays, was, for a couple of years in the twenties, Managing Editor of the

Dial

, at the time New York’s most prestigious literary and art journal. She also wrote three modernist novels that explore the individual consciousness through multiple voices:

She Shall Have Music

(1926),

King Log and Lady Lea

(1929), and

Hester Craddock

(1931). In these novels she imaginatively transforms her own experiences into literature in order to portray the limitations that society imposed on women.

Gregory was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, on 19 July 1884, the youngest of three siblings; her father, Dr. James G. Gregory, was a significant personage in the town, while both her mother and her aunt – who had founded the town library

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

1321 words

Citation: Ozieblo, Barbara. "Alyse Gregory". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 November 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=6025, accessed 25 November 2024.]