Bryher (1894–1983)

Annie Ellerman took her pen name Bryher from one of the Isles of Scilly.  She was a friend of the "Lost Generation" of writers and artists in Paris in the 1920 and helped support some of them financially.  In 1933, she began using her home in Switzerland to help Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.  She herself then had to flee to England, where she managed a literary magazine.  She later wrote historical novels and a memoir of her years in London before and during World War II.