Research Catalog

Title

Paris was a woman : portraits from the Left Bank / Andrea Weiss.

Author

Weiss, Andrea.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Harper San Francisco, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

256 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

• Paris Was a Woman is an illustrated collective portrait of the unique community of women who became known as the "women of the left bank." Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, poets H.D. and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson, and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary milieu.
• A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss's lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.

Subject

• Women and literature > Paris > History > 20th century
• Women artists > Paris > History > 20th century
• Women authors, American > Paris > History > 20th century
• Women authors, British > Paris > History > 20th century
• Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Rive guache (Paris, France) > Intellectual life > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 250) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Paris was a Woman -- 1. Odeonia: The Country of Books -- 2. The Writer and Her Muse -- 3. Amazones et Sirenes -- 4. City of Dark Nights -- 5. Letters from Paris.

ISBN

0062513133 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 33816145
• ocm33816145
• SCSB-14278716

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries