Adrienne Monnier

McAlmon hosted a dinner party which Weaver attended together with Djuna Barnes , William Bird , sculptor Thelma Wood , and Ezra Pound , who mortified her by teasing her, quite without justification, about her...

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

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

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

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

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...

As a student SB continued her extra-curricular reading. She discovered, through her cousin Jacques Champigneulles , the moderns: Alain-Fournier , Cocteau , Montherlant , Gide , Claudel , Valéry , Barrès , and Adrienne Monnier .

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 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.

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)...

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 ventured into A. Monnier 's bookshop at 7 rue de l'Odéon, and there met Adrienne Monnier , who became her life-long companion.

SB moved her belongings into Adrienne Monnier 's apartment at 18 rue de l'Odéon, an arrangement that lasted for fifteen years.

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.