No Modernism Without Lesbians

A book about love, identity, acceptance, and the freedom to write, paint, compose, and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. It tells the story of how a group of women in Paris between the wars fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein were all women who loved women and rejected the patriarchy. Diana Souhami weaves their stories with those of the four central women to create a vivid tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-War Paris.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 464 pages
\n Publication date: 04 February 2021
\n Publisher: Head of Zeus
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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

\n Weight: 404g\n
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 38 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781786694874\n \n