{"product_id":"women-writing-on-the-french-riviera-travellers-and-trendsetters-1870-1970-9789004428751","title":"Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDestination for artists and convalescents, playground of the rich, site of foreign allure, the French Riviera has long attracted visitors to its shores. Ranging through the late nineteenth century, the Belle Epoque, the ‘roaring twenties’, and the emancipatory post-war years, Rosemary Lancaster highlights the contributions of nine remarkable women to the cultural identity of the Riviera in its seminal rise to fame. Embracing an array of genres, she gives new focus to feminine writings never previously brought together, nor as richly critically explored. Fiction, memoir, diary, letters, even cookbooks and choreographies provide compelling evidence of the innovativeness of women who seized the challenges and opportunities of their travels in a century of radical social and artistic change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Introduction    Part 1: Art and Illness  1 Marie Bashkirtseff’s Quest for Glory: the Nice Years and After   Epilogue    2 ‘Ordered South’: Katherine Mansfield in Menton   Epilogue    Part 2: High Life on the Riviera  3 Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo   Epilogue    4 Bronislava Nijinska: The Ballets Russes Years   Epilogue    5 The Riviera and the Rich: Rebecca West’s The Thinking Reed (1936)   Epilogue    Part 3: The Mediterranean Idyll  6 Rebirth in Saint-Tropez: Colette’s Break of Day   Epilogue    7 An Invented Childhood: Honoria Murphy in Antibes   Epilogue    8 Flavours of the South: the Culinary Revolutions of Elizabeth David and Julia Child   Epilogue  Selective Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210799243607,"sku":"9789004428751","price":122.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-writing-on-the-french-riviera-travellers-and-trendsetters-1870-1970-9789004428751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}