Isadora Duncan

Standard Name: Duncan, Isadora

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Edith Craig	EC 's brother, Edward Gordon Craig , became a prominent theatre designer. (He is also known for his relationship with Isadora Duncan ).
Friends, Associates	Natalie Clifford Barney	By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Rabindranath Tagore , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott
Friends, Associates	Gladys Henrietta Schütze	GHS also knew and loved the greatOlive Schreiner . Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 128-9 Vernon Lee , she said, was primarily a friend of her scientist husband; they both stayed with her several times. Schütze pondered the paradox...
Intertextuality and Influence	Olive Schreiner	To Vera Brittain and some of her contemporaries, Women and Labour was the Bible of the Women's Movement. It influenced the writings of many early-twentieth-century feminists, including historian Alice Clark and suffragette Constance Lytton
Textual Features	B. M. Croker	The hero of this novel (after whom it is titled) is a gentleman who (rather like Terence) has to deal with Anglo-Indian society looking at him askance because he takes a job working on the...

Timeline

1907

The London County Council banned stage tableaus or living pictures (erotic in content), and in their place the Palace Theatre engaged Maud Allan as a solo dancer.

Walkowitz, Judith R. “Women Writing / Women Performing in the Imperial Metropolis”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 17 Mar. 2001.

1927

Victor Gollancz established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.

Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.

179

Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.

201

Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.

127

Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.

340

December 1927

Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan died at nearly fifty, as melodramatically as she had lived, her autobiography, My Life, appeared from the new publishing firm Gollancz . It became an immediate best-seller...

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