Djuna Barnes

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Standard Name: Barnes, Djuna
Birth Name: Djuna Barnes
Pseudonym: Lydia Steptoe
Pseudonym: A Lady of Fashion
Pseudonym: Gunga Duhl, the Pen Performer
Best-known for her novel Nightwood, 1936, about her fellow Americans in Paris, DB wrote in a number of other genres: plays, short stories, poetry, and journalism. Other works like the Ladies Almanack defy generic categorisation. Her writing is heavily if not cryptically autobiographical. Her works frequently appeared with her own illustrations. She based many of her characters on her family, ex-lovers, and acquaintances. Critic Mary Lynn Broe writes: Most of Barnes' major writings—the short stories in Spillway, the novel Ryder, but particularly the heavily excised twenty-nine drafts of The Antiphon—encode the sexual violations and erotic entanglements in the patriarchal family.
Broe, Mary Lynn. “Introduction”. Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 3-23.
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Black and white photograph of Djuna Barnes, shown from the waist up, with her head turned slightly and one hand on her hip. She is wearing a polka-dotted blouse under a black jacket, large pearl earrings, dark lipstick, and a black hat with a ribbon around it and a narrow brim.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Brigid Brophy
One of the twelve sections is no more fifty words. The novel's decadent style inhabits the minds of several characters, particularly that of the tall, fragile, perpetually exhausted but secretly sexually voracious Antonia Mount. Her...
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
With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud
Occupation Natalie Clifford Barney
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 .
Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
166, 178
Publishing Natalie Clifford Barney
It was published privately by Eric Partridge at the Scholastic Press in London, in a limited edition of 560 copies, with two illustrations by Romaine Brooks .
Barney, Natalie Clifford. Souvenirs indiscrets. Flammarion.
prelims
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Djuna Barnes tried unsuccessfully to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Natalie Clifford Barney
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...
Fictionalization Natalie Clifford Barney
NCB has been a magnet for biographers (recently as the subject with Romaine Brooks of Diana Souhami 's Wild Girls in 2004 and as a minor character in Joan Schenkar 's Truly Wilde: the Unsettling...
Textual Production Natalie Clifford Barney
The Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet in Paris holds most of NCB 's papers, described in detail in their catalogue, Autour de Natalie Clifford Barney (1976). Other letters and manuscripts are held at the Beinecke Library

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