Author: Harriet Lane Levy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Regarding her trip to Paris with Alice B. Toklas shortly after 1906 earthquake; friendships with Gertrude, Leo, Michael, and Sarah Stein; interest of the Steins in Picasso, Matisse, and other painters; life in Paris at that time. Also includes six letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1914-1950, and letter from William James, August 2, 1944, all addressed to Miss Levy.
Harriet Lane Levy Recollections
Author: Harriet Lane Levy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Regarding her trip to Paris with Alice B. Toklas shortly after 1906 earthquake; friendships with Gertrude, Leo, Michael, and Sarah Stein; interest of the Steins in Picasso, Matisse, and other painters; life in Paris at that time. Also includes six letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1914-1950, and letter from William James, August 2, 1944, all addressed to Miss Levy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Regarding her trip to Paris with Alice B. Toklas shortly after 1906 earthquake; friendships with Gertrude, Leo, Michael, and Sarah Stein; interest of the Steins in Picasso, Matisse, and other painters; life in Paris at that time. Also includes six letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1914-1950, and letter from William James, August 2, 1944, all addressed to Miss Levy.
920 O'Farrell Street
Author: Harriet Lane Levy
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9780930588915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Originally published in 1937 in the later years of her extraordinary life, Harriet Lane Levy's memoirs of her childhood in San Francisco during the late 1800s give us a rare view into the traditional life and manners of an upper-middle-class Jewish family of the era. With sly wit and a writing style critics compared to Jane Austen's, Levy vividly portrays an often stifling world of parlors and sitting rooms, maids and cooks, family intrigue and neighborhood pretensions, eased by the warmth of family affections and Levy's own independent spirit.
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9780930588915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Originally published in 1937 in the later years of her extraordinary life, Harriet Lane Levy's memoirs of her childhood in San Francisco during the late 1800s give us a rare view into the traditional life and manners of an upper-middle-class Jewish family of the era. With sly wit and a writing style critics compared to Jane Austen's, Levy vividly portrays an often stifling world of parlors and sitting rooms, maids and cooks, family intrigue and neighborhood pretensions, eased by the warmth of family affections and Levy's own independent spirit.
Becoming Modern
Author: Carolyn Burke
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374709548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism—in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp's co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes's confidante; in Mexico with the greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography, Becoming Modern, brings this highly original and representative figure wonderfully alive, in the process giving us a new picture of modernism—and one woman's important contribution to it.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374709548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism—in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp's co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes's confidante; in Mexico with the greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography, Becoming Modern, brings this highly original and representative figure wonderfully alive, in the process giving us a new picture of modernism—and one woman's important contribution to it.
Four Americans in Paris
Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
No Modernism Without Lesbians
Author: Diana Souhami
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786694859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times. 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 their stories into those of the four central women to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-War Paris. 'One of the best books I've read this year.' James Bridle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786694859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear, kiss, publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isn't a page without an entertaining vignette' The Times. 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 their stories into those of the four central women to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-War Paris. 'One of the best books I've read this year.' James Bridle
The "Harriet Lane."
Author: H. D. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail
Author: Jeanne E Abrams
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jeanne E. Abrams “has written a sweeping, challenging, and provocative history of Jewish women in the American West . . . a pathbreaking work.”* The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trailrectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West. In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the East. Jewish women in the West took advantage of the unsettled nature of the region to “open new doors” for themselves in the public sphere in ways often not yet possible elsewhere in the country. Women were crucial to the survival of early communities, making distinct contributions not only in shaping Jewish communal life but outside the Jewish community as well. Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers. This engaging work—full of stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women—illuminates the pivotal role they played in settling America's Western frontier. “Fast and engrossing. As a piece of scholarly writing it should be required reading in any course on the American West that seeks to broaden the definition of what it means to be a Westerner.” —*Colorado Book Review Center
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jeanne E. Abrams “has written a sweeping, challenging, and provocative history of Jewish women in the American West . . . a pathbreaking work.”* The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trailrectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West. In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the East. Jewish women in the West took advantage of the unsettled nature of the region to “open new doors” for themselves in the public sphere in ways often not yet possible elsewhere in the country. Women were crucial to the survival of early communities, making distinct contributions not only in shaping Jewish communal life but outside the Jewish community as well. Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers. This engaging work—full of stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women—illuminates the pivotal role they played in settling America's Western frontier. “Fast and engrossing. As a piece of scholarly writing it should be required reading in any course on the American West that seeks to broaden the definition of what it means to be a Westerner.” —*Colorado Book Review Center
Pioneer Jews
Author: Harriet Rochlin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Contributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
A Time for Gathering
Author: Hasia R. Diner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Diner describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration and challenges many long-held assumptions--particularly the belief that the immigrants' Judaism erodes in the middle class comfort of Victorian America.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Diner describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration and challenges many long-held assumptions--particularly the belief that the immigrants' Judaism erodes in the middle class comfort of Victorian America.
Old Drury Lane. Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor, and Manager
Author: Edward Stirling
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338543937X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338543937X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.