Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940

A "valuable and intriguing" study of the lives and works of literary women who shaped expatriate Paris (NPR).

Focusing on some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century, from Anais Nin to Alice B. Toklas and beyond, this book shines new light on how gender was experienced and expressed during an important moment in modern literary history.

"Shari Benstock . . . weaves together, with great skill, the hist...