Adrienne Monnier

As a student SB continued her extra-curricular reading. She discovered, through her cousin Jacques Champigneulles , the moderns: Alain-Fournier , Cocteau , Montherlant , Gide , Claudel , Valéry , Barrès , and Adrienne Monnier .

SB ventured into A. Monnier 's bookshop at 7 rue de l'Odéon, and there met Adrienne Monnier , who became her life-long companion.

SB moved her belongings into Adrienne Monnier 's apartment at 18 rue de l'Odéon, an arrangement that lasted for fifteen years.

SB was hunting down a copy of Paul Fort 's Vers et prose, and was directed to Monnier's bookshop. She found the shop's owner surprisingly warm and friendly. Adrienne declared that she like[d] America...

Bryher met Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier , her future friends and collaborators, at Beach's Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company .

McAlmon hosted a dinner party which Weaver attended together with Djuna Barnes , William Bird , sculptor Thelma Wood , and Ezra Pound , who mortified her by teasing her, quite without justification, about her...

In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein , Alice B. Toklas , Ernest Hemingway , James Joyce

SB had suffered from health problems all her life, but as the responsibilities of owning a bookstore and publishing Ulysses grew, her migraines increased in length and intensity. The headaches began in her pre-teen years...

Becoming Bryher was one way of indicating rejection of patriarchal influences and assertion of feminist connections. Bryher also used her physical appearance to demonstrate her distaste for mainstream images of acceptable upper-class femininity. Noel Riley Fitch

Valéry read prose pieces: selections from his Alphabet and Fragments du Narcisse. Though he was aging, and did not project or enunciate his words as clearly as Gide, the Friends did not mind, but...

Bryher made a financial commitment to Shakespeare and Company as well: in 1937, for instance, she donated funds covering most of its annual rent, and provided Beach with an expenses fund thereafter. With Monnier

In her second memoir, Bryher recalls conceiving this war text in October 1940, when she saw a large plaster bulldog placed on guard beside a pile of rubble after a heavy air raid on...

SB published her French translation of Walt Whitman 's 1856 speech on Ulysses S. Grant , entitled The Eighteenth Presidency, through Adrienne Monnier in an all-American issue of Le Navire d'argent.

In June 1925, SB and Adrienne Monnier translated into French T. S. Eliot 's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock for the first edition of Monnier's Le Navire d'argent. This was...

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...