The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives

How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history

It’s impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century. But this was not always so. The Passion Projects examines biographical projects that modernist women writers undertook to resist the exclusion of their friends, colleagues, lovers, and companions from literary history. Many of these works we...