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Ladies almanack : showing their signs and their tides, their moons and their changes, the seasons as it is with them, their eclipses and equinoxes, as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers  Cover Image E-book E-book

Ladies almanack : showing their signs and their tides, their moons and their changes, the seasons as it is with them, their eclipses and equinoxes, as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers

Barnes, Djuna (Author).

Summary: ""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,

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780814711804
  • ISBN: 9780814711798
  • ISBN: 0814711804
  • ISBN: 0814711790
  • ISBN: 9780814739365
  • ISBN: 0814739369
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (li, 84 pages) : illustrations
    remote
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:july.24
Multi-User.
Originally published: 1928.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: 9780814711804-Barnes_frnt; 9780814711804-Barnes_text.pdf; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Ladies Almanack; Foreword.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Barnes, Djuna -- Fiction
Barney, Natalie Clifford -- Fiction
Brooks, Romaine -- Fiction
Flanner, Janet -- 1892-1978 -- Fiction
Hall, Radclyffe -- Fiction
Troubridge, Una Vincenzo -- Lady -- 1887-1963 -- Fiction
Barnes, Djuna
Barney, Natalie Clifford
Brooks, Romaine
Flanner, Janet -- 1892-1978
Hall, Radclyffe
Troubridge, Una Vincenzo -- Lady -- 1887-1963
Lesbians -- France -- Paris -- Fiction
Lesbiennes -- France -- Paris -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
FICTION -- General
Lesbians
France -- Paris
JSTOR-DDA
Multi-User.
Genre: Fiction
Romans à clef.

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