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.
Details
| ISBN | 9780814711804 |
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| Copyright Date | 1992 |
| Publication Date | May 1, 1992 |
| Publisher | NYU Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 138 |
| Language | English |
| 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. |
| Rating | Great |
| Genre | Autobiographical Fiction |