Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes

Ladies Almanack

Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes must have had great fun writing and illustrating this book. It’s a lively lampoon of her lesbian chums of Left Bank Paris in the 1920s. The main character, Dame Evangeline Musset, is based on the notorious dyke Natalie Barney. Structured as a month-by-month almanac in a style that owes as much to Shakespeare’s comedies as to any literature of the intervening centuries, Barnes’s book follows the Dame’s amorous, often naughty, adventures.

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Details

ISBN 9780814711804
Genre Autobiographical Fiction
Publication Date 01-May-92
Publisher NYU Press
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 138
Notes Fifty of the 1050 copies of the first edition were hand colored by the author, who was identified only as a lady of Fashion: on the title page.
Language English
Rating Great
BookID 6462

Author: LFWBooks