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Wie meer wil lezen over dit onderwerp, navigeer ik met plezier naar de memoires van Sylvia Beach en haar brieven, het al genoemde boek van Fitch, en bijvoorbeeld ook “A Moveable Feast” van Hemingway en “The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas” van Gertrude Stein - zowaar een grappig en zeer leesbaar Stein boek, allicht het enige. Leuke bezigheid: zien hoe Hemingway en Stein - ooit de beste maatjes, tot ze elkaar niet meer konden luchten - elkaar de duvel aandoen in hun memoires. Souhami gets much of her information on Renee Vivien's life outside of Natalie Clifford Barney from Colette's The Pure and The Impure, which is...not like the most reputable source? I'm mostly disappointed because I was hoping to learn some new information on Vivien, and instead I got a rehashing of Colette's piece on her. a b c FitzHerbert, Claudia (1 August 2004). "A writer's life: Diana Souhami". The Telegraph . Retrieved 25 March 2014.

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A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. A study of the anti-patriarchal women who played essential roles in the development of 20th-century modernism. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer. This post is part of Outward , Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Read more here .Diana Souhami (born 25 August 1940) is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays. She is noted for her unconventional biographies of prominent lesbians. I started writing about lesbians 25 years ago in the hope of contributing to breaking the history of silence. Acceptance can't happen without openness, and I believe we should all try to speak out in our own way. If you're silent and invisible you're no trouble to anyone. You're so buried you're assumed not to be there. So, historically, we have to dig deep to shed light on 'these practices', rid them of insult, turn the wrongdoing around, name and shame the abusers." (Souhami quoted by Emily Reynolds) [10] Works [ edit ] Books [ edit ] The Weekend". Diana Souhami. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014 . Retrieved 25 March 2014.

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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.” 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). Murder at Wrotham Hill (2012) is an account of the 1946 murder of Dagmar Petrzywalski and the subsequent investigation and prosecution of the crime, near a quiet village in Kent. Also announced at Saturday’s event was the Polari First Book prize, which has this year been awarded to criminal barrister Mohsin Zaidi for his memoir A Dutiful Boy. Already a Guardian, New Statesman and GQ book of the year, this debut recounts the author’s experience of growing up gay in a devout Muslim household and being in denial about his sexuality. 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."

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Found myself waiting to hear an actual point being said but things are either alluded to or taken as a matter of fact or if a point is made it’s often rephrased a couple more times to idk fill up time I guess They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own – forming a community around them in Paris.

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Bakst: the Rothschild panels of the Sleeping beauty. London: Philip Wilson. 1992. ISBN 9780856674198. 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

The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.

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A woman's place: the changing picture of women in Britain. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1986. ISBN 9780140086096. Had really high hopes for this as I’ve read some of Jessas writing and thought this would be a stimulating political podcast with a leftist tilt In the NCB section, it just skips from 1940 to 1956???????????? I can't help but assume that this was due in part to NCB and Romaine Brooks (especially Brooks) having had some fascist sympathies during the war but it was a truly bizarre choice for a biography to skip over those years, particularly when the lives during the war of the other figures discussed in the book (Sylvia Beach, Bryher, and Gertrude Stein) are covered in detail.Emily Reynolds (13 May 2013). "For Books' Sake Talks To: Diana Souhami". For Books' Sake . Retrieved 19 April 2014.