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Friends, Associates | Natalie Clifford Barney | By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry
, Colette
, Jean Cocteau
, Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Ernest Hemingway
, F. Scott |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | Hemingway
was scheduled to read alone but was frightfully anxious, so he asked Stephen Spender
, whom he had met in Spain, to come along and read too. Hemingway was still nervous on the... |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | |
Textual Production | Sylvia Beach | The speech urged all Americans to use their democratic rights to bring down corrupt politicians, because the President eats dirt and excrement for the daily meals, likes it, and tries to force it on the... |
Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | Ernest Hemingway
and Stephen Spender
gave the last readings held at SB
's Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 370 |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine)
, André Gide
, Dorothy
and Ezra Pound
, and Gertrude Stein
. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace. 22, 26-7 |
Occupation | Sylvia Beach | Harassed by customers and friends for their copies, SB
withdrew the window-copy until shipments arrived from the publisher
in Dijon. She and her assistant mailed out the books to subscribers in the United States... |
Textual Features | Theodora Benson | The protagonist, Valentine Verney, has had some success on the stage, but since she married impresario Johnnie Mellon her name has become much less prominent in lights than his. The troupe is a cross-section of... |
Literary responses | Ann Bridge | A British Foreign Office
official warned that what he called the uniform unpleasantness of the Spanish characters (which was news to her: was he responding to the fact that people behave badly in extreme circumstances?)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bryher | Though emotionally empty, the marriage was artistically productive. Most significantly, Bryher's introductions and family funds allowed McAlmon to establish his influential press, Contact Editions
. Thus, Bryher's money and social connections enabled the publication of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isak Dinesen | The wedding took place the day after her arrival there, with Prince Wilhelm
of Sweden as their witness. They spent their honeymoon at Lake Naivasha. Bror was rapidly developing into the African white hunter... |
Occupation | Ford Madox Ford | Ernest Hemingway
was associate editor. The magazine published modernist writers including Djuna Barnes
, Jean Rhys
, Gertrude Stein
, William Carlos Williams
, Ezra Pound
, and e. e. cummings
. Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, p. various pages. 200 |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher
were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein
, Alice B. Toklas
, Ernest Hemingway
, James Joyce |
Reception | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness was also prosecuted for obscenity in the United States. There RH
received support from writers including Ernest Hemingway
, F. Scott Fitzgerald
, Sinclair Lewis
, Ellen Glasgow
, Edna St Vincent Millay |
Author summary | Claire Keegan | The writing style of CK
, contemporary Irish short-story writer, is minimalist, and she does not often discuss her process, giving a definite sense that she would prefer not to have to comment on her... |
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