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Benstock, Shari, 1944- author.

Women of the Left Bank : Paris, 1900-1940 / Shari Benstock.

First edition.

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1986.

©1986

xi, 518 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, map ; 25 cm

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Literature publishing -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.

Women and literature -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.

American literature -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.

British -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.

Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.

American literature -- French influences.

Rive gauche (Paris, France) -- Intellectual life.

Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-508) and index.

Wilson, R.A. Gertrude Stein, J

Also issued online.

Part I. Discoveries. Women of the Left Bank ; Secret passages: the Faubourg St. Germain ; Simultaneous existences: four lives in St. Germain ; From the Left Bank to the Upper East Side: Janet Flanner's letter from Paris -- Part II. Settlements. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: Rue de Fleurus ; Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier: Rue de l'Odéon ; Djuna Barnes: Rue St.-Romain ; Natalie Barney: Rue Jacob -- Part III. Crossroads. H.D. and Bryher: En passant ; At the sign of the printing press: the role of small presses and little magazines ; Paris transfer: the 1930s ; The city they left.

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