The Book of Repulsive Women by Djuna Barnes
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around the world to produce a set of volumes which are both a lucid textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students and an authoritative guide to the subject. The text pays particular attention to the explanation of quantitative and theory-based enquiry, but all forms of historical research are used to provide a comprehensive account of the development of the British economy. Volume I covers the period 1700 1860; Volume I examines the period 1860 1939; the focus of volume I is 1939 2000. The books provide an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history, economics and other social sciences.
Djuna Chappell Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson in 1892, and she grew up in an eccentric, polygamous household. She was educated at home by her suffragist grandmother. She moved to New York in 1911, where she briefly studied at the Pratt Institute of Art, and where she made her living as a writer, penning feature articles, short stories, one-act dramas and poetry. Barnes was a talented artist and she illustrated her own work throughout her life. In the 1920s she moved to Paris, where she lived and worked amongst the literary expatriate community there until the late 1930s, when she moved back to New York. Barnes is most famous for her 1936 novel Nightwood but her three other major works, Ryder (1928), Ladies Almanack (1928) and The Antiphon (1958), are arguably equally important. In her latter years Barnes became reclusive, refusing public attention and attempts to republish her work. She died in 1982 at the age of ninety.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857547078 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857547071 |
| Title | The Book of Repulsive Women |
| Author | Djuna Barnes |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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