TY - BOOK ID - 100036117 TI - Ladies Almanack AU - djuna barnes AU - Lanser, Susan Sniader PY - 1992 SN - 0814739369 0814711804 PB - NYU Press DB - UniCat KW - Lesbians KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Lesbian Studies. KW - Barnes, Djuna KW - Female gays KW - Female homosexuals KW - Gay females KW - Gay women KW - Gayelles KW - Gays, Female KW - Homosexuals, Female KW - Lesbian women KW - Sapphists KW - Women, Gay KW - Women homosexuals KW - Gays KW - Women KW - Lady of fashion, KW - Steptoe, Lydia KW - בארנס, דז׳ונה UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100036117 AB - "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 JournalBlending 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, which was also the first audience. Barney herself subsidized its private publication in 1928. Fifty of the 1050 copies of the first edition were hand colored by the author, who was identified only as a lady of Fashion: on the title page. ER -