All-night party : the women of bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 / by Andrea Barnet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnet, Andrea.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Crazy New York. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Women.

History.

Bohemianism.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Women--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Bohemianism--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.).

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

New York (State)--New York.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.

Summary:

"In the early part of the twentieth century, New York City was a hotbed of creativity and scandal. Meet the women at the heart of it. They were poets, actresses, singers, artists, journalists, publishers, baronesses, and benefactresses. They were thinkers and they were drinkers. They eschewed the social conventions expected of them - to become wives and mothers - and decided to live on their own terms. In doing so, they became the voices of a new, fierce feminine spirit."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Cast of characters

Introduction : Wild in pursuit

Mina Loy : a modern self-experiment

Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap : life for art's sake

Edna St. Vincent Millay : imprisoned in the personal

Entertaining Bohemia : the hostesses and their salons

Bessie Smith : 'tain't nobody's business if I do!

Ethel Waters : am I blue?

Epilogue : End of the party.

Notes:

Originally published: Crazy New York. Berlin : Edition Ebersbach, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barnet, Andrea. Crazy New York. English. All-night party.

ISBN:

1565123816

9781565123816

OCLC:

53231366

Online:

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