No Modernism Without Lesbians
Book • 2020
This is the extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, between the wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.
Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein.
A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer.
They were all women who loved women.
They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own – forming a community around them in Paris.
Each of these four central women interacted with a myriad of others, some of the most influential, most entertaining, most shocking and most brilliant figures of the age.
Diana Souhami weaves together their stories to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-war Paris.
Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein.
A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer.
They were all women who loved women.
They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own – forming a community around them in Paris.
Each of these four central women interacted with a myriad of others, some of the most influential, most entertaining, most shocking and most brilliant figures of the age.
Diana Souhami weaves together their stories to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-war Paris.
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Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
