 That year , H.D. attended Bryn Mawr College to study Greek literature , but left after only three terms due to poor grades and the excuse of poor health . While at the college , she met poets Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams . Her first published writings , stories for children , were published in The Comrade , a Philadelphia Presbyterian Church paper , between 1909 and 1913 , mostly under the name Edith Gray . In 1907 , she became engaged to Pound . Her father disapproved of Pound , and by the time Pound left for Europe in 1908 , the engagement had been called off . Around this time , H.D. started a relationship with a young female art student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts , Frances Josepha Gregg . After spending part of 1910 living in Greenwich Village , she sailed to Europe with Gregg and Gregg 's mother in 1911 . In Europe , H.D. began a more serious career as a writer . Her relationship with Gregg cooled , and she met a writing enthusiast named Brigit Patmore with whom she became involved in an affair . Patmore introduced H.D. to another poet , Richard Aldington . 
