Best known work

• "Feminist Manifesto", 1914

Other well known work(s)

• The Lunar Baedeker, 1923

Genres

• Poetry
• Fiction - Novels
• Plays
• Biography / Autobiography
• Politics / Philosophy / Essays

Nom de plume

Mina Gertrude Loy, Mina Gertrude Löwy, Mina Haweis, Mina Lloyd

Social class

Working class

Parental background

Loy's father was a tailor and she was largely educated at home.

At publication of best known work

• Age: 32
• Marital status: Married
• Number of children: 2

Physical description

Carolyn Burke notes that as a child Loy had "dark hair cropped like a boy's". In her late thirties Loy dressed fashionably, "her long black hair was parted in the middle and twisted in a low chignon - her intricate tortoiseshell earrings, elegant dress, and willowy figure set her apart" (Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy). Loy's daughter described her as "a tall very slim woman in flowery clothes [and] large hats" (Burke, ibid).

Did you know?

Loy's second husband Arthur Cravan disappeared without trace, presumed drowned while testing a boat in which he planned to escape their life of poverty. Loy was four months pregnant with her fourth child (the first by Cravan).

Additional information

Modern American Poetry offers a good overview of Loy and her life.