Dachine Rainer
Dachine Rainer (born Sylvia Newman; 13 January 1921 – 19 August 2000) was an American-born English writer, poet, and anarchist.
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- Name
- Dachine Rainer
- Birth Name
- Sylvia Newman
- Born
- 13 January 1921
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, US
- Died
- 19 August 2000
- Full name
- Sylvia Newman.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom and United States.
- Occupation
- poet, anarchist, civil libertarian and writer.
- Languages
- English.
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Dachine Rainer (born Sylvia Newman; 13 January 1921 – 19 August 2000) was an American-born English writer, poet, and anarchist.
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Key facts
• Name — Dachine Rainer • Birth Name — Sylvia Newman • Born — 13 January 1921 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, US • Died — 19 August 2000 • Resting Place — Highgate Cemetery • Partner — Holley Cantine • Children — Thérèse • Language — English
Life and career
Life and career
Rainer was born in New York and grew up in the Tribeca neighborhood. Her father was a tailor. She was young when the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had taken place, which had influenced her ideologies. Rainer had already become a pacifist and anarchist by the time she was a teenager. In 1938, she had begun writing poetry and prose and won a scholarship to study English literature at Hunter College. In 1944, her first published work, a review, was in the magazine Politics.
Personal life
Personal life
In the 1950s Rainer lived with the writer Holley Cantine with whom she had a daughter Thérèse.
Selected works
Selected works
• Outside Time (1948) • Giornale de Venezia (Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory, 167), 1996 • The Uncomfortable Inn (1960)
Legacy
Rainer's papers from the years 1948-1971, largely consisting of her correspondence with the photographer Marion Morehouse and her partner E. E. Cummings, are held at the Lilly Library.
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