Stein made up for such grovelling when she announced her artistic status by declaring that “20th-century literature is Gertrude Stein”. Her self-puffery now sounds absurd, and Souhami’s view of her as “the mother and father of modernism” is not much more persuasive. At best, Stein was the fairy godmother of modernism. Like Beach and Barney, she kept a salon where she performed the traditional role of hostess, supervising the camaraderie of the male painters, writers and musicians who attended; armed with the inevitable private income, derived in her case from San Francisco streetcars, she amassed an uninsurably valuable collection of paintings by Cézanne, Picasso and Matisse, which she left unframed and sometimes casually stashed in closets.

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I wanted to turn the issue around,” says Souhami of women’s contributions to modernism, “gain the upper hand, move from campaign and argument for acceptance and civil rights, and show what women in same-sex relationships achieved—singly and, even more so, collectively—in that crucial twentieth-century transition to new ways of seeing.” is niet bepaald flatterend. Dat ze een snor had, herhaalt Souhami ad nauseam. En dat deze handmaiden (Steins lover maar ook typiste, manager, kokkin, poetsvrouw) eigenlijk alle touwtjes strak in handen had en alle vrouwen jaloers en angstvallig van Stein weghield. Souhami lijkt niet zo hoog op te lopen met het werk van Stein, waar ze verrassend vaak de draak mee steekt.

Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer. Cunningham, John (27 April 2002). "The real Robinson Crusoe". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 March 2014. Over Bryher en Nathalie Barney wist ik nog niet zoveel, dus dat was interessanter, al lijkt de verdienste van beiden vooral te zijn geweest dat ze fabelachtig rijk waren en as such heel wat kunstenaars en projecten hebben ondersteund of mogelijk gemaakt. Zonder Beach geen Joyce, maar zonder Bryher ook geen Beach, enz. Van Barney onthoud ik vooral dat ze lak had aan alles en iedereen, en dat half (vrouwelijk) Parijs tussen haar lakens heeft gelegen (iets wat Virginia Woolf heel erg verwonderde, wat ik dan weer grappig vond).

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No Modernism Without Lesbians is a collection of four biographies of women who were instrumental to the modernist movement in literature and art: Shakespeare and Co. proprietor and publisher Sylvia Beach, patron of the arts Bryher, author and art collector Gertrude Stein, and socialite Natalie Barney.An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. A woman's place: the changing picture of women in Britain. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1986. ISBN 9780140086096. nothing is said that is actually thought provoking in a meaningful way you have to already have a lot of leftist assumptions to go in and there’s so much circular thought it actually drove me and my partner w bit crazy trying to dissect some of the things said Wild girls: Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2004. ISBN 9780297643869.

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My gratitude to the excellent people at Head of Zeus for sending this absolutely wonderful book across to me in exchange for an honest review. Needless to say, I loved it immensely.Availability of research material was one limiting factor,” says Souhami in explaining the absence of women of color in her work. “Another was the reluctance of mainstream publishers to commission books about little-known people. I hope, despite this, I’ve made a contribution.”

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The Paris lesbians had to free themselves from male authority, the controlling hand, the forbidding edict. They escaped the disapproval of fathers and the repression of censors and lawmakers, defined their own terms and shaped their own lives. They did not reject all men – they were intrinsic to furthering the careers of writers, film-makers and artists whose work and ideas they admired. What shifted was the power base, the chain of command." Bakst: the Rothschild panels of the Sleeping beauty. London: Philip Wilson. 1992. ISBN 9780856674198. They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own - forming a community around them in Paris. I saw her critique of chapo and red scare as unlistenable and I have to say having listened to red scare that this one is much more unlistenableEmily Reynolds (13 May 2013). "For Books' Sake Talks To: Diana Souhami". For Books' Sake . Retrieved 19 April 2014. Weird things don’t get challenged like on one ep a guest says she doesn’t like Florence and t he machine bc of it’s pre raphaelite aesthetics which she doesn’t like due to its conservative connotations I find this a little bit insane and thought Jessa would question it but she seems to want to be friendly and agreeable way more than have an interesting discussion there is a real sense of sitting in on two snobby leftists who think they’re not snobby leftists bc they call out other leftists for being snobby leftists Bryher, Beach, Stein, and Barney were further united by their love of interwar Paris. All were expatriates—Bryher from the United Kingdom, the latter three from the United States—who found their way to France in the 1920s. All were pushed from their homes by prevailing efforts to suppress “indecency” in private life and the arts, as typified by Prohibition and censorship. On the other hand, Paris was cheap, as France was still recovering from the carnage of World War I, and Parisian society placed few expectations on expatriates. A comment from Picasso about Beach could stand in for Paris’ perspective of them all: “They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.”