Académie des Femmes

Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS had published only a few volumes and had often...

ML was now at the centre of the Parisian expatriate literary community, and she renewed her friendships with Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes . In 1927 she spoke at Natalie Barney 's Académie des Femmes

NCB began the Académie des Femmes , a series of readings and performances at her salon in Paris designed to bring together American, English, and French women writers.

Gertrude Stein was the featured writer at a gathering of the Académie des Femmes at NCB 's salon. The programme included an introduction by Mina Loy , Barney's French translations of The Making of Americans...

Rachilde and Ford Madox Ford discussed American women writers at a meeting of the Académie des Femmes at NCB 's salon in Paris, giving special attention to Djuna Barnes .

In a letter to Gertrude Stein written in December 1926, NCB explains: The other night . . . I realized how little the French femmes de lettres know of English and Americans and vice versa...

NCB published Aventures de l'esprit, a collection of short sketches of well-known writers, including the women who participated in the Académie des Femmes .

The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB 's encounters with Oscar Wilde , Anatole France , Remy de Gourmont , Marcel Proust , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Max Jacob , and others. The second part...