Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides; Their Moons and Their Changes; The Seasons As It Is With Them; Their Eclipses and Equinoxes; A: ... Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series) - Softcover

Djuna Barnes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814711804 ISBN 13: 9780814711804

Publisher: NYU Press, 1992

Synopsis

"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody."
—Library Journal

Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, Ladies Almanac is also a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were Barnes' literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters, which was also the first audience. Barney herself subsidized its private publication in 1928. Fifty of the 1050 copies of the first edition were hand colored by the author, who was identified only as a lady of Fashion: on the title page.

About this title

Review:

"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody." --Library Journal

About the Author:

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is best known as the author of Nightwood, one of the finest novels of the modernist period. Shw was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, and worked as a journalist in New York before leaving the country to spend many years in Paris and London. She returned to New York in 1941, and lived in Greenwich Village until her death.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0814711804
• ISBN 13: 9780814711804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138