Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986.
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Cultural formation | H. D. | Of these two companions, Bryher
identified herself as lesbian while HD did not. Some commentators, such as Janice Robinson
, have described the relationship between them as a lesbian marriage, although both took measures to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bryher | Bryher
married writer Robert McAlmon
in New York City. Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986. 357 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bryher | Bryher proposed marriage to McAlmon
shortly before her return to England. Through the union, she gained independence from and approval from her family, while she promised McAlmon funds for his literary pursuits. Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins, 1963. 205 |
Friends, Associates | Djuna Barnes | DB
arrived in Paris with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound
and James Joyce
, and she soon came into contact with a great number of the US expatriates living there at this time, including... |
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, 1959. 22, 26-7 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Butts | In Paris in the 1920s MB
engaged with other modernist writers and literary people, including James Joyce
, Djuna Barnes
, Robert McAlmon
, Ford Madox Ford
, Bryher
, Peggy Guggenheim
, Ethel Colburn Mayne |
Friends, Associates | H. D. | In Chicago on her US visit of 1920-1, HD met with Harriet Monroe
. In New York she renewed her acquaintance with friends from her early days in Pennsylvania: Marianne Moore
and William Carlos Williams |
Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | The Egoist Press
went on to publish Dora Marsden's The Definition of the Godhead, Eliot
's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Pound
's Dialogues of Fontenelle, Lewis
's Tarr,... |
Publishing | Sylvia Beach | The speech urged all Americans to use their democratic rights to bring down corrupt politicians, because the President eats dirt and excrement for the daily meals, likes it, and tries to force it on the... |
Publishing | Mary Butts | MB
's first novel, Ashe of Rings, which she called a War-Fairy-Tale, was published in Paris by Robert McAlmon
's Three Mountains Press
. Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998. 145 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Publishing | Ford Madox Ford | Robert McAlmon
's Three Mountains Press
in Paris published FMF
's Women and Men, a philosophical discussion on the relations and the differences between the sexes qtd. in Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, 1986, p. various pages. 330 Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press, 1962. 55-6 |
Publishing | Gertrude Stein | GS
's magnum opus, a novel entitled The Making of Americans, was published in France by Robert McAlmon
's Contact Editions
. Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley, 1959. 267, 411 |
Publishing | H. D. | Robert McAlmon
's Contact Press
published at ParisH. D.
's first, highly experimental novel, Palimpsest. Boughn, Michael. H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990. University Press of Virginia, 1993. 16-18 |
Publishing | Mina Loy | ML
's poetry collection Lunar Baedecker was published in Paris by Robert McAlmon
's Contact Publishing Company
. McAlmon was apparently responsible for the mis-spelling of Baedeker on the title-page. Jonathan Williams corrected this typographical... |
Residence | Bryher | Shari Benstock
explains that the very wealthy Bryher had been advised to move to Switzerland for tax purposes. But Benstock also suggests that Bryher's Swiss home became a creative refuge for her and H. D... |
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