Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this "scrapbook" of their work—along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary—highlights the political, social, and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists, including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, and many more.

Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated, it is an enlightening account of women who between wars found their selves and their voices in Paris. A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments combine with Weiss' revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for who Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this "scrapbook" of their work—along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary—highlights the political, social, and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists, including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, and many more.

Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated, it is an enlightening account of women who between wars found their selves and their voices in Paris. A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments combine with Weiss' revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for who Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank

Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank

by Andrea Weiss
Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank

Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank

by Andrea Weiss

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Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this "scrapbook" of their work—along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary—highlights the political, social, and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists, including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, and many more.

Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated, it is an enlightening account of women who between wars found their selves and their voices in Paris. A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments combine with Weiss' revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for who Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781619021792
Publisher: Catapult
Publication date: 10/29/2013
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Andrea Weiss is an award–winning documentary filmmaker and nonfiction author. Her most recent book, In The Shadow Of The Magic Mountain: The Erika And Klaus Mann Story won the Publishing Triangle Award for nonfiction. She has been granted fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as an Emmy Award for her documentary Before Stonewall. She lives in New York City and teaches at The City College of New York.

Table of Contents

Dramatis Personae ix

Preface to the 2013 Edition xiii

Preface to the 1995 Edition xix

Introduction: Paris Was a Woman xxiii

1 Odéonia: The Country of Books 1

2 The Writer and Her Muse 33

3 Amazones et Sirènes 69

4 City of Dark Nights 109

5 Letters From Paris 141

Epilogue 187

Notes 203

Selected Bibliography 213

Photo and Text Credits 215

About the Author 217

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