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Author Barnes, Djuna

Title Ladies almanack : showing their signs and their tides, their moons and their changes, the seasons as it is with them, their eclipses and equinoxes, as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers / written & illustrated by a lady of fashion
Published New York : New York University Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (li, 84 pages) : illustrations
Series The Cutting edge
Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
Contents 9780814711804-Barnes_frnt; 9780814711804-Barnes_text.pdf; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Ladies Almanack; Foreword
Summary ""Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author ... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody." Library Journal Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, Ladies Almanac is also a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were Barnes' literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters,
Notes Originally published: 1928
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Barnes, Djuna -- Fiction
Flanner, Janet, 1892-1978 -- Fiction
Troubridge, Una Vincenzo, Lady, 1887-1963 -- Fiction
Hall, Radclyffe -- Fiction
Brooks, Romaine -- Fiction
Barney, Natalie Clifford -- Fiction
Barnes, Djuna. fast (OCoLC)fst00042895
Barney, Natalie Clifford. fast (OCoLC)fst00031695
Brooks, Romaine. fast (OCoLC)fst00015437
Flanner, Janet, 1892-1978. fast (OCoLC)fst00036751
Hall, Radclyffe. fast (OCoLC)fst00005969
Troubridge, Una Vincenzo, Lady, 1887-1963. fast (OCoLC)fst00138957
Subject Lesbians -- France -- Paris -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
Lesbians.
France -- Paris.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Romans à clef.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 91048152
ISBN 9780814739365
0814739369