Women of the Left Bank, Paris 1900-1940
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ISBN: 0292790406 / Publisher: University of Texas Press, August 1987
Offers profiles of British and American expatriate women in Paris, including Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, H.D., Katherine Anne Porter, and Edith Wharton
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Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early years.This ambitious historical, biographical, and critical study has taken its place among the foremost works of literary criticism. Maurice Beebe calls it "a distinguished contribution to modern literary history." Jane Marcus hails it as "the first serious literary history of the period and its women writers, making along the way no small contribution to our understanding of the relationships between women artists and their male counterparts, from Henry James to Hemingway, Joyce, Picasso, and Pound."
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