Posts Tagged: Romaine Brooks
Secret Satan, 2022
You know what to expect by now, surely? Well, expect even more of it: this is our biggest year-end book selection yet.
Summer* reading list
A selection of beach reads – only some of them ironically so!
Amazon in her prime
Spend the night chez Natalie Barney as she celebrates her 50th birthday
Romaine Brooks: A Life
Cassandra Langer discusses her biography of the great 20th century portraitist
Romaine Brooks: A Life
Cassandra Langer discusses her biography of the great 20th century portraitist
Wild hearts at midnight
Flickering lanterns in the Temple d’Amitié…
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
One of the most prominent of Paris’s 20th century American expatriates, Barney networked at an Olympian level.
The Other Amazon
“Who are these people? Why this gray palette? How does she shape a new concept of femininity?” Listen and find out…
The Other Amazon
“Who are these people? Why this gray palette? How does she shape a new concept of femininity?” Listen and find out…
Salon queen
Natalie Barney would become the 20th century’s greatest saloniste. Visitors to her Friday afternoon meetings included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Salon queen
Natalie Barney would become the 20th century’s greatest saloniste. Visitors to her Friday afternoon meetings included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Rainer Maria Rilke.
A Casati family tree
Casati claimed to be her own work of art, but it was a work with its own set of influences. Her crepuscular glamour, for instance, owed much to Elisabeth of Austria and her cousin Ludwig II and she vied with Montesquiou as the Countess de Castiglione’s posthumous BFF.
A Casati family tree
Casati claimed to be her own work of art, but it was a work with its own set of influences. Her crepuscular glamour, for instance, owed much to Elisabeth of Austria and her cousin Ludwig II and she vied with Montesquiou as the Countess de Castiglione’s posthumous BFF.
Grey eminence
Romaine Brooks’s reputation has greatly increased in recent years. Tthese fearless studies of strong, self-possessed women enjoy a critical reputation far beyond their significance as curios of early 20th century lesbian life.
Grey eminence
Romaine Brooks’s reputation has greatly increased in recent years. Tthese fearless studies of strong, self-possessed women enjoy a critical reputation far beyond their significance as curios of early 20th century lesbian life.
Strange Flowers 