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Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
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culture · American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892–1982) · poet · novelist · writer · playwright · journalist · painter · illustrator · satirical novelist · also Djuna Barnes, Lydia Steptoe, Barnes
Born 12 June 1892 · Died 18 June 1982 · Q234721
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2002· 1 entry
“The Way of Transition : Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments”
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1982· 2 entries
Died 1982-06-18.
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“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.”
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1961· 2 entries
And was awarded a senior fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981
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In Stockholm in a Swedish translation by Karl Ragnar Gierow and U
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1958· 1 entry
And she died in her apartment at Patchin Place, Greenwich Village, in June 1982
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1950· 1 entry
Realizing that alcoholism had made it impossible for her to function as an artist, Barnes stopped drinking in order to begin work on her verse play The Antiphon
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1946· 1 entry
Worked for Henry Holt as a manuscript reader, but her reports were invariably caustic, and she was fired
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1943· 1 entry
Barnes was included in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York
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1936· 1 entry
In an expensive edition by Faber and Faber, and in the United States in 1937 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, with an added introduction by T
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1921· 1 entry
A lucrative commission with McCall's took Barnes to Paris, where she lived for the next 10 years
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1919· 2 entries
And 1920; a fourth, The Dove, premiered at Smith College in 1925, and a series of short closet dramas were published in magazines, some under Barnes's pseudonym Lydia Steptoe
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Attended by Barnes until the end
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1916· 2 entries
Told Barnes he wanted a German wife; the painful breakup became the basis of a deleted scene in Nightwood
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Or 1917, she lived with a socialist philosopher and critic named Courtenay Lemon, whom she referred to as her common-law husband, but this too ended, for reasons that are unclear
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1915· 1 entry
Barnes moved out of her family's flat to an apartment in Greenwich Village, where she entered a thriving Bohemian community of artists and writers
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1914· 3 entries
First posed the question "What do women want at a fight
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Submitted to force-feeding, a technique then being used on hunger-striking suffragists
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“If I, play acting, felt my being burning with revolt at this brutal usurpation of my own functions, how they who actually suffered the ordeal in its acutest horror must have flamed at the violation of the sanctuaries of their spirits.”
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1913· 1 entry
Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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1912· 1 entry
Barnes's family, facing financial ruin, split up
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1897· 1 entry
When Barnes was five years old
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-06-12.
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