Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas, 1985.
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Cultural formation | Djuna Barnes | DB
's sexuality was complex, and not easily defined. She had many affairs with both men and women, most notably Thelma Wood
. Her biographers have called her basically heterosexual Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas, 1985. 153 |
Friends, Associates | Antonia White | In Chelsea AW
formed a friendship with the painter Eliot Seabrooke
, a large and centred personality qtd. in Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 72 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Wesley | Even when they lived in a remote spot, the Siepmanns' circle of close literary friends included Nancy Mitford
, Graham Greene
, Antonia White
, and Emily Coleman
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Dylan Thomas | DT
's huge roster of friends in London included the American writer Emily Holmes Coleman
and his most significant early patron, Edith Sitwell
. Before Sitwell reviewed his early poems he had mocked her in... |
Occupation | Djuna Barnes | She spent much of her time in these years painting, including portraits of her friends Alice Rohrer
and Emily Coleman
. Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995. 218-21 |
Residence | Djuna Barnes | She first stayed with her mother, and then spent two months with Emily Coleman
on a working ranch in Arizona. Neither arrangement was successful. Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995. 248, 250 |
Textual Production | Djuna Barnes | DB
had tried to find a publisher for Nightwood while she was living in New York, but the manuscript was turned down repeatedly. Emily Coleman
suggested revisions, which Barnes carried out. Coleman also exploited literary... |
Textual Production | Antonia White | The doctor, said Emily Coleman
, often saved lives and refused money from those who could not afford to pay. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 192 |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | When Virago Press
reprinted The Shutter of Snow by MW
's friend Emily Holmes Coleman
in 1981, Carmen Callil
(though she had just rejected what eventually became Wesley's first adult novel) invited her to share... |
Travel | Djuna Barnes | Other visitors to Hayford Hall included Antonia White
and Emily Coleman
. DB
also spent the summer of 1933 there. Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas, 1985. 195-6, 198 Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995. 186 |
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