The Book of Repulsive Women: And Other Poems
Djuna Barneswas born in Great Britain and moved to New York in 1911, where she briefly studied at the Pratt Institute of Art. In the 1920s she moved to Paris, where she lived and worked amongst the literary-expatriate community until she moved back to New York. She is the author ofThe Antiphon, Ladies Almanack, Nightwood,andRyder.Rebecca Loncraineis a former research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.