Magic Mirror is H.D.'s unpublished roman a clef of her eight-year strange relationship with Dr. Erich Heydt, a psychiatrist in Zurich with whom she formed a bond which often oscillated between professional consultation and a sort of analyst-analysand intimacy accompanied by much inner conflict and resistance. Relatively short, and written in three drafts between 1955 and 1956, Magic Mirror is autobiography in disguise: Everything is true there. I had a hard time finding names for my people. They are real people; everything is real except the build-up of Eric's enigmatic German background. Magic Mirror sheds abundant light on her relationship with Heydt, who played a role much like Freud did in H.D.'s life twenty years earlier. The work also offers insights into her relationship with Ezra Pound; her unresolved bond with her half-brother, Eric Doolittle; Pieter Rodeck; as well as the sinking of the Lusitania and the still-birth of her first child on May 21, 1915."