Description
Book SynopsisThis work examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anais Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and HD, it investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction.
Trade Review"Original and highly readable.... A significant contribution to the fields of modernism and women's literature."—Holly Laird, University of Tulsa
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction—"Books Not of the Imagination"
1. The Many Faces of June—Ana\u00efs Nin's Appropriation of Feminine Writing
2. Revenge and Parodic Appropriation in Rebecca West's Sunflower
3. Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz—Household Plagiarism and Other Crimes of the Heart
4. Accomodation in Radclyffe Hall's The Forge
5. The Writer Self in H.D.'s Auto/biographical Fiction
Afterword—Alternative Mentors and Modes of Collaboration
Notes
Works Cited
Index
