 Close to the end of the war , H.D. met the wealthy English novelist Bryher ( Annie Winifred Ellerman ) . They lived together until 1946 , and although both took numerous other partners , Bryher remained her lover for the rest of H.D. ' s life . In 1919 , H.D. came close to death when she gave birth to her daughter Frances Perdita Aldington — although the father was not Aldington , but Gray — while suffering from war influenza . During this time , her father , who had never recovered from Gilbert 's death , died . In 1919 , H.D. wrote one of her few known statements on poetics , Notes on Thought and Vision , which was unpublished until 1982 . In this , she speaks of poets ( herself included ) as belonging to a kind of elite group of visionaries with the power to ' turn the whole tide of human thought ' . 
