Clements, Patricia. “’Transmuting’ Nancy Cunard”. Dalhousie Review, Vol.
66
, 1986, pp. 188-14. 189
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death | Nancy Cunard | By the time of her death, she was incoherent and unable to walk. She was hospitalized in Paris by police, who found her collapsed in the street. She had been on her way to visit... |
Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | NC
established important relationships in Paris: with Dadaist Tristan Tzara
, Louis Aragon
, American writers Janet Flanner
and Solita Solano
, and photographer Man Ray
. Clements, Patricia. “’Transmuting’ Nancy Cunard”. Dalhousie Review, Vol. 66 , 1986, pp. 188-14. 189 |
Literary responses | Djuna Barnes | Natalie Barney
was delighted with Ladies Almanack, as were Janet Flanner
and Solita Solano
. Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995. 151 Lanser, Susan Sniader, and Djuna Barnes. “Introduction”. Ladies Almanack, New York University Press, 1992, p. xv - li. xxxiii-xxxiv |
Occupation | Sylvia Beach | This was the first American bookstore in Paris. It became a focal point of French and American literary activities. In the summer of 1921 the bookstore moved to 12 rue de l'Odéon. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959. 60 |
Publishing | Sybille Bedford | She had already contributed an article on him to a volume edited by Julian Huxley
in 1965: Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963. A Memorial Volume. She later referred to her work on the biography as a... |
Publishing | Leonora Carrington | She offered the manuscript to Janet Flanner
, who then worked in publishing, but Flanner rejected it. Written in English, this version of the memoir is not extant, but subsequent versions were completed and published. Warner, Marina, and Leonora Carrington. “Introduction”. Down Below, New York Review of Books, 2017, p. vii - xxxvii. xxiii Carrington, Leonora, and Marina Warner. Down Below. New York Review of Books, 2017. 69 |
Publishing | Colette | This was translated into English (as Claudine at School) by Janet Flanner
in 1930 and by Antonia White
in 1956 (several times reprinted). British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Colette | This was a much-revised version of the much earlier Ces Plaisirs, translated into English in 1934 (which also included material on famous female-oriented women, like the Ladies of Llangollen). Le Pur et l'Impur... |
Reception | Sylvia Beach | Le Mercure de France published its homage to SB
, with essays and poems by T. S. Eliot
, Janet Flanner
, André Gide
, James Joyce
, Gertrude Stein
and others. Mathews, Jackson, and Maurice Saillet. Sylvia Beach 1887-1962. Mercure de France, 1963. cover and prelims |
Textual Features | Djuna Barnes | Structured as a monthly chronicle, Ladies Almanack is a satiric lesbian cosmology based on Natalie Barney
and her circle in Paris. Among its characters are Patience Scalpel, based on Mina Loy
, Lady Buck-and-Balk and... |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | The first volume in the Yale Edition of Gertrude Stein's Unpublished Writings, Two: Gertrude Stein and her Brother, was published posthumously with a foreword by Janet Flanner
. Wilson, Robert Alfred. Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. Phoenix Bookshop, 1974. 58 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Wealth and Poverty | Djuna Barnes | By this time she relied on stipends from Peggy Guggenheim
and Natalie Barney
in order to live. She also received money from Samuel Beckett
, Janet Flanner
, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters |