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, 1991, 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.

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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, 1976.
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Occupation Ford Madox Ford
Ernest Hemingway was associate editor. The magazine published modernist writers including Djuna Barnes , Jean Rhys , Gertrude Stein , William Carlos Williams , Ezra Pound , and e. e. cummings .
Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, 1986, p. various pages.
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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, 1960.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986.
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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, 1990.
Djuna Barnes tried unsuccessfully to...
Textual Features Deborah Levy
The detached wryness of this book reminded Lauren Elkin of Djuna Barnes .
Elkin, Lauren, and Deborah Levy. “Introduction”. Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography. Two Early Novels, Bloomsbury, 2015, p. vii - xiii.
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The characters are rootless as well as detached.Lapinski, a Russian migrant living hand-to-mouth in the underbelly of London, tells the...
Textual Features Angela Carter
AC 's extravagant fiction combines many genres, conventions, and styles, and she looks for the hidden realities behind appearances, paying particular attention to sexuality and women's eroticism. Critic Linden Peach sees important elements in her...
Textual Production Ali Smith
In addition to these collaborative works, AS has published an anthology of her own favourite texts, those she sees as essential to her development as a writer. Published twice under different titles—The Reader (2006)...
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
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...

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