Dachine Rainer (born Sylvia Newman; January 13, 1921 – August 19, 2000) was an American-born British writer, poet, and anarchist.[1]

Life and Career

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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.[1]

 
Grave of Dachine Rainer in Highgate Cemetery

Selected works

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  • Outside Time (1948)
  • Giornale de Venezia (Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory, 167), 1996 ISBN 3-7052-0964-7
  • The Uncomfortable Inn (1960)[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dachine Rainer". The Telegraph. September 8, 2000. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  2. ^ Talbot, Daniel (December 18, 1960). "Bank Street Bohemians; Rev. of The Uncomfortable Inn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

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