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Djuna Barnes’s Playthings
Her short fiction provides an odd glimpse at a writer whose interests move beyond the human and into something more inchoate.
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Djuna: The Life & Work of Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes once claimed that she and Emily Brontë were the only women writers worth reading. She may have been tipsy at the time – during one of Peggy Guggenheim’s punishing house parties in 1932 – ...
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Ernst Hanfstaengl and Djuna Barnes
American Author Djuna Barnes was born on 12th June, 1892 in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, United States and passed away on 18th Jun 1982 Manhattan, New York City aged 90. She is most remembered for ...
Sex, scandal and anti-Semitism – behind the myth of Peggy Guggenheim
Man Ray, Emma Goldman, Samuel Beckett, Djuna Barnes, Constantin Brâncuși: her friends and lovers are a roll-call of those who ...
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Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies
She is in the early stages of a manuscript exploring the modernism of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and Jean Rhys. "What Would Lady Mary Do?: Teaching the Modern Novel in the Wake of Downton Abbey," ...