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I think… if it is true
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
As women we derive
Adrienne Rich ‘It is the Lesbian in Us’ Sinister Wisdom
Throw over your man
1
The world has always
Janet Flanner, The Cubicle City, 1926
2
the all-time ultimate
Truman Capote, Answered Prayers, 1986
2
I am a lesbian
Natalie Barney, Éparpillements, 1910
3
When is a woman not
H.D., ‘Borderline: A Pool Film with Paul Robeson’, 1930
4
You are going to tell
Hansard, 15 Aug 1921, vol. 43
4
I am bold enough to say
Ibid.
5
England was consciously
Gertrude Stein, Paris France, 1940 and following
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‘You can’t censor
Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, 1956
8
It is true that I only
Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 19 August 1930, Letters of Virginia Woolf, ed. Nigel Nicolson, vol. 4, 1978
8
the habit of freedom
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 1929
9
Look here Vita
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, undated 1927, Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol, 3, 1977
Sylvia Beach
Most of Sylvia Beach’s papers are housed in the Manuscripts Division of Princeton University Library. The library at the State University of New York at Buffalo has many of her James Joyce letters, postcards and telegrams; letters from John Quinn; and correspondence with the printer Darantiere and with Paul Léon about legal issues.
Her papers collected by the Monnier estate are at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas.
Janet Flanner’s papers are in the Flanner / Solano archive at the Library of Congress. The New Yorker magazine files are in the New York Public Library.
Harriet Weaver’s papers and correspondence are in the British Library manuscripts collections. Her letters to James Joyce are at Cornell University.
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They couldn’t get Ulysses
Shakespeare and Company
13
My loves were
Ibid.
13
Sylvia had inherited
Sylvia Beach 1887–1962, Mercure de France
14
At Miss Barney’s one met
Shakespeare and Company
15
I was not interested
Quoted in Noel Riley Fitch, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
17
Granny taught us to knit
Ibid.
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his open attentions to a fair
Town Topics: The Journal of Society, New York, 1915
19
the new black cook
Sylvia to Marion Peter, 29 November, 1916, Princeton
20
I’m treated like
Sylvia to Cyprian, 16 September 1916, Princeton
20
My Khaki suit
Sylvia to Cyprian, 20 August 1917, Princeton
21
In the unaccustomed
Quoted in Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage
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She seemed gray and white
Shakespeare and Company
22
That was the beginning
Ibid.
22
American by her nature
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
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Je te salue
La Figure, 1923
24
Americans have democracy
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
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Mlle Monnier, buxom as
Janet Flanner, Paris was Yesterday, 1972
26
distributed pyjamas
Shakespeare and Company
26
20 to 30 patients died every
Sylvia to Cyprian, 11 March 1919, Princeton
27
I really don’t know where
Sylvia to Cyprian, 11 July 1919, Princeton
28
It was great fun getting
Shakespeare and Company
28
O mother dear, you never
Sylvia to Eleanor Orbison Beach, 27 August 1919, Princeton
30
If a manuscript was sold
Bryher, The Heart to Artemis
30
sitting in a sort
Shakespeare and Company
33
From that moment on
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, Introduction
35
As a young student under
Shakespeare and Company
37
The awful face of a mad
Quoted in Diana Souhami, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter
37
Not long after
Shakespeare and Company
38
the philistines, the exhibition
Ed. Whelan, Stieglitz on Photography
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But she did write a poem
Shakespeare and Company
39
You French have no Alps
Ibid.
40
I have found a wonderful
Hemingway to Hadley, 28 December 1921
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crawled some hellish
Scott Fitzgerald to Hemingway, 8 November 1940
41
No one that I ever knew was
Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
42
‘Here, read Hemingway
Shakespeare and Company
42
I found the acknowledged leader
Ibid.
43
thirteen generations of clergymen
Quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
43
The drinks were always on him
Shakespeare and Company
46
I had a narrow upbringing
6 January 1960. Quoted in Dear Miss Weaver
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a remarkable person, a genius
Dear Miss Weaver
47
to probe to the depths of human
Ibid.
47
I can but apologise to you
Weaver to Joyce, 28 July 1915
48
I did my best to make her
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 14 April 1918
49
With us, love is just as
Margaret Anderson, My Thirty Years War
50
Why shouldn’t women
Ibid.
50
We formed a consolidation
Ibid.
50
I don’t remember ever having
Ibid.
51
The sweet corners of thine tired
Ibid.
51
Hanging from her bust were two
Ibid.
52
We’ll print it
Ibid.
55
You’re damn fools trying to get
Quoted in Ellmann, James Joyce
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engaged in such a passionate exchange
My Thirty Years’ War
56
I am sure she didn’t know the significance
Quoted in Ellmann, James Joyce
57
You can no more limit his expression
My Thirty Years’ War
58
I have never been too hungry
Ibid.
59
What a good thing for Joyce
Shakespeare and Company
59
overcome though I was
Ibid.
62
Undeterred by lack of capital
Ibid.
62
You cannot legislate against
Ibid.
64
invented, or, if she has not
Essays of Virginia Woolf, vol. 3
64
It was a tremendous relief
Shakespeare and Company
65
It wasn’t
