Paris was a woman
Subtitle: portraits from the Left Bank
By: Andrea Weiss.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Women intellectuals -- France -- Paris -- Biography.; Rive gauche (Paris, France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: Paris Was a Woman is an illustrated collective portrait of the unique community of women who became known as the "women of the left bank." Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, poets H.D. and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson, and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary milieu.

A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss's lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250) and index.