The novel opens arrestingly as the child Gwen and her siblings struggle back into their house from a walk in wild and stormy weather. Gwen's later-famous brother is called Gus, not Augustus
, to forestall...
Publishing
Sylvia Beach
SB
published A Museé Rodin
in Paris, an essay on the museum's founding, in International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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Textual Production
Clementina Black
CB
also produced an assortment of other writings. Her several biographies include The Princess Désirée (1896), a life of artist Frederick Walker
(1902), and The Linleys of Bath (a family biography, 1911), which went through...
Travel
Kathleen E. Innes
On her way home, she and her four travelling companions spent two days in Copenhagen, taking advantage of the unexpected stopover by visiting Tivoli, the Thorwalden Museum
(where Kathleen was impressed by Ganymede and...
Timeline
December 1927: Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan...
Building item
December 1927
Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan
died at nearly fifty, as melodramatically as she had lived, her autobiography, My Life, appeared from the new publishing firm Gollancz
. It became an immediate best-seller...
