Material from Collected Poems 1912–1944 by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) © 1982 by the Estate of Hilda Doolittle, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. in the USA and Carcanet Press in the UK.
Material from The Cubical City by Janet Flanner, 1926, reprinted by permission of the Southern Illinois University Press; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Material from ‘Elisabeth de Gramont, Natalie Barney’s “Eternal Mate”’, from South Central Review, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall 2005, by Francesco Rapazzini, reprinted by permission of Johns Hopkins University Press; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Material from Everybody’s Autobiography by Gertrude Stein, 1938, courtesy of Heinemann, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein, written 1929, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from Gertrude Stein’s letters reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from Hansard © UK Parliament. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. See also: https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/
Material from Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters 1917–1961 by Carlos Baker, editor. Copyright © 1981 by Carlos Baker and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
Material from Ernest Hemingway, A Life’s Story by Carlos Baker, 1969. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
Material from Letters of Sylvia Beach, edited by Keri Walsh, published by Columbia University Press, 2010 © the Estate of Sylvia Beach.
Lyrics by Gertrude Stein reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from Lifting Belly: Bee Time Vine by Gertrude Stein, 1913–27, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein, 1966, courtesy of Ultramarine Pub Co.; reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
From A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1964 by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright renewed © 1992 by John H. Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway and Gregory Hemingway. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved
Material from Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac by Sylvia Kahan; reprinted by permission of University of Rochester Press; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Material from Palimpsest by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) © 1926 by H.D., reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Material from Q.E.D. in Fernhurst, Q.E.D. and Other Early Writings by Gertrude Stein, 1971, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from Paris Was Yesterday 1925–1939, by Janet Flanner, Irving Drutman, ed., 1998 © copyright the Estate of Irving Drutman.
Material from Shakespeare and Company, 1956, by Sylvia Beach, first published by Harcourt, Brace, New York, c.1959, reprinted by permission of Cengage Learning, Inc.
Material from ‘Susie Asado’ and ‘Preciosilla’, poems by Gertrude Stein, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A history of literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties, by Noel Riley Fitch, published by W.W. Norton, 1983, reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton and the Margret McBride Literary Agency.
Material from My Thirty Years’ War: An Autobiography by Margaret Anderson, ABC-Clio, 1930, reprinted by permission of Greenwood Publishing, Inc.; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Material from Two: Gertrude Stein and her brother and Other Early Portraits by Gertrude Stein, 1951, courtesy of Yale University Press; reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Unpublished letter: Bryher to Brigit Patmore, 4 March 1925, used with permission from Tim Schaffner, on behalf of the Schaffner family.
Unpublished letter: H.D. to Bryher (September 21, 1946) from New Directions Pub. acting as agent © 2020 by The Schaffner Family Foundation; reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Unpublished letter: Bryher to H.D. (29 September 1946) reprinted with permission from Tim Schaffner, on behalf of the Schaffner family.
Unpublished letter: Bryher to Silvia Dobson (1 May 1961) reprinted with permission from Tim Schaffner, on behalf of the Schaffner family.
Material from The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier by Richard McDougall, translator © 1976 by Richard McDougall, reprinted by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Material from Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein, 1945, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
Material from When this You See, Remember Me: Gertrude Stein in Person by W.C. Rogers, 1948, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The vision and expertise of others transformed a meagre pdf attachment from me into this book. Thank you to Georgina Capel, my agent for 25 years. Thank you to Maggie McKernan Editor-at-Large at Head of Zeus, to Clare Gordon, Assistant Editor there and to Clémence Jacquinet, Production Director. I fear that one way or another I drove them all up the wall. Thank you to Jenni Davis for her scrupulous copy editing, to Adrian McLaughlin for his impressive typesetting, to Cliff Murphy for his indexing, and to Anna Morrison who designed the jacket.
I wrote much of this book at the London Library in St James’s Square. It is a special place – a million books to be borrowed or browsed, online access to articles and archives, friendly and hugely knowledgeable librarians. I was spurred on there by a WhatsApp posse of writers. We wait for the library doors to open at 9.30, save each other places and share cake and coffee and occasionally champagne. When I work from home I dead head the geraniums and raid the fridge.
I hurry to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig whenever there is an available space. It is a paradisal artists’ retreat, there’s an enchanted house, a lake to swim in, woodland to walk in and Lavina’s cooking deserves a Michelin star. Thank you to Mary, Ingrid, Martina and all who make this place so special.
And thank you, as ever and always, to Naomi Narod, my best friend for 56 years. Her kindness to me has no limit. She even enthused when I read the entire manuscript out loud to her – twice.
About the Author
DIANA SOUHAMI is the author of Gluck: Her Biography, Gertrude and Alice, Greta
