American Writers in Paris | Shari Benstock (essay date 1986)
Shari Benstock (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: “Women of the Left Bank,” in Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940, University of Texas Press, 1986, pp. 3-36.
[In the following essay, Benstock examines American female modernist writers living in Paris, believing that many of them were ignored unfairly by such American editors as Ezra Pound, whom she perceives as predisposed to give short shrift to women writers.]
Margaret Anderson
Djuna Barnes
Natalie Barney
Sylvia Beach
Kay Boyle
Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)
Colette
Caresse Crosby
Nancy Cunard
Hilda Doolittle (H. D.)
Janet Flanner
Jane Heap
Maria Jolas
Mina Loy
Adrienne Monnier
Anaïs Nin
Jean Rhys
Solita Solano
Gertrude Stein
Alice B. Toklas
Renée Vivien
Edith Wharton
These women were part of the artistic community that formed on the...
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