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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Andrea (Film producer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women intellectuals.

Rive gauche (Paris, France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Women intellectuals--France--Paris--Biography.

Intellectual life.

France--Paris.

France--Paris--Rive Gauche.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, [1995]

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 "A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss's lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither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."--Back cover

Contents:

Dramatis Personae

Preface

Introduction: Paris was a woman

Odéonia: the country of books

The writer and her muse

Amazones et sirènes

City of dark nights

Letters from Paris

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (page 250) and index.

Lambda Literary Awards - Photography/Visual Arts, Winner, 1996

Other Format:

Online version: Weiss, Andrea (Film producer). Paris was a woman.

ISBN:

0062513133

9780062513137

OCLC:

33816145