Ladies' Almanack
Author(s): Djuna Barnes
Barnes's affectionate lampoon of the expatriate lesbian community in Paris was privately printed in 1928. Arranged by month, it records the life and loves of Dame Evangeline Musset (modeled after salon hostess Natalie Barney) in a robust style taken from Shakespeare and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and is illustrated throughout with Barnes's own drawings. This new edition is a facsimile of the 1928 edition with the addition of an afterword providing details on the book's origins and a key to its real-life models.
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Djuna Barnes (1892--1982) is best known as the author of Nightwood, one of the finest novels of the modernist period. Shw was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, and worked as a journalist in New York before leaving the country to spend many years in Paris and London. She returned to New York in 1941, and lived in Greenwich Village until her death.
General Fields
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- : Deep Vellum Publishing
- : Deep Vellum Publishing
- : 0.141
- : 01 April 1993
- : 210mm X 154mm X 8mm
- : United States
- : 01 November 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Djuna Barnes
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : English
- : 813.52
- : 91