Katia has given an image of this but I thought I’d share a few personal pics also because I had such a hard time imagining it when I first read the book. My friend Amanda remembered that her grandfather, who
I couldn’t fit this in the presentation but if I had to read it for research you do too
I desperately needed to show you all this. I beleive Katia mentioned that not all salon atendees were lesbain women, although a vast majority were. Many men did come to the salons (like Stein’s) for the art and literature. But
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A few things from my literary tourism travels
I’m including several photos below, all taken by me in the archives of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt or at the special collections library of Smith College. (Even as I post some of these, I hesitate, lest I fetishize Woolf’s mental illness
with apologies to Benstock
Friends, I ripped through that essay and also gave you little time to say anything about it. So this is just an open invitation: what interested you, what seemed helpful (or not) as a working theory? Brief comments and longer
