Adrienne Monnier

She writes in her introduction, c'est une gageure de faire tenir dix ans de vie littéraire sur quatre murs (it is an impossible task to hold ten years of literary life within four walls)...

In 1937, SB and Adrienne Monnier translated Bryher 's Paris 1900. Bryher thanked SB by saying it was the only writing of mine I have ever read with pleasure thanks to your translation.

Bryher 's Paris 1900, a booklet on her childhood visit to the World Exhibition in that city that year, was published. Drafted in English, it was translated into French and distributed by Sylvia Beach

Reviewing the collection, Kathryn Hughes found SB 's usual style characterised by a kind of polite chirpiness, with even faintly slangy expressions—jazzed up, my stars, corking—marked by scare quotes, and Beach's...

SB and Adrienne Monnier translated Dorothy Richardson 's About Punctuation in January 1935. This was printed in the first issue of the new revue Mesures. Mesures was managed by Adrienne Monnier with Jane Van Meter

In her second memoir, Bryher recalls conceiving this war text in October 1940, when she saw a large plaster bulldog placed on guard beside a pile of rubble after a heavy air raid on...

SB published her French translation of Walt Whitman 's 1856 speech on Ulysses S. Grant , entitled The Eighteenth Presidency, through Adrienne Monnier in an all-American issue of Le Navire d'argent.

In June 1925, SB and Adrienne Monnier translated into French T. S. Eliot 's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock for the first edition of Monnier's Le Navire d'argent. This was...

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...

Bryher made a financial commitment to Shakespeare and Company as well: in 1937, for instance, she donated funds covering most of its annual rent, and provided Beach with an expenses fund thereafter. With Monnier

Becoming Bryher was one way of indicating rejection of patriarchal influences and assertion of feminist connections. Bryher also used her physical appearance to demonstrate her distaste for mainstream images of acceptable upper-class femininity. Noel Riley Fitch

Valéry read prose pieces: selections from his Alphabet and Fragments du Narcisse. Though he was aging, and did not project or enunciate his words as clearly as Gide, the Friends did not mind, but...

SB had suffered from health problems all her life, but as the responsibilities of owning a bookstore and publishing Ulysses grew, her migraines increased in length and intensity. The headaches began in her pre-teen years...

Bryher met Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier , her future friends and collaborators, at Beach's Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company .

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