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Name: Djuna Barnes
Variant Name: Lydia Steptoe
Birth Date: January 12, 1892
Death Date: June 18, 1982
Place of Birth: Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer, journalist

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Biography of Djuna Barnes
3,908 words, approx. 13 pages
In Paris in 1924 Ernest Hemingway noted: "Djuna Barnes who, according to her publishers is that legendary personality that has dominated the intellectual night-life of Europe for a century is in town. I have never met her, nor read her books, but she...
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Biography of Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes is known primarily for her poetic novel Nightwood, first published in England in 1936. Few works so intensely distill the anguish of the American abroad in Paris in the twenties and thirties, cut off from his native roots in a culture that...
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Biography of Djuna Barnes
2,091 words, approx. 7 pages
Journalist, dramatist, novelist, poet, short-story writer, and, most of all, enigmatic figure, Djuna Barnes has protected her privacy for the last forty-five years. Indeed, Douglas Messerli says that she is "perhaps the most private writer since Henry...
 


Quotations
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Djuna Barnes Quotes
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Djuna Barnes ( June 12 , 1892 – June 18 , 1982 ) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Nightwood (1936) 2 Unsourced 3 About Djuna Barnes 4 External links // Sourced We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Djuna Barnes Information
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Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a...


News and Journals
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Djuna Barnes: an updated bibliography. (Djuna Barnes) (Bibliography)
09/22/1993: 1,104 words, approx. 4 pages
An updated bibliography on Djuna Barnes includes new editions of her work, new translations of her work and critical commentary. The following items did not appear in Douglas Messerli's 1975 bibliography of Barnes's work nor in the bibliography prepared by Janice Thom and...
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Zadel Barnes: journalist. (Djuna's grandmother) (Djuna Barnes)
09/22/1993: 4,598 words, approx. 15 pages
Djuna Barnes's relationship with her grandmother, Zadel Barnes, was one of the most influential of her life. The correspondence between the two has an erotic aspect that has been interpreted as evidence of their incestuous relationship. However, in the context of the general tone...
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The New York Observer
Virginia Zabriskie: Her Paris Adventure Showed Atget, Abbott
2/20/2005: 749 words, approx. 3 pages
It's one of the functions of anniversary celebrations to evoke happy memories, and on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Zabriskie Gallery in New York, I want to recall an event from the spring of 1979. To do so, however,...
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The New York Observer
Stonewall to Shutter? Queen Bees Stinging Glad!
8/27/2006: 1,682 words, approx. 6 pages
For several days now, a conspicuous “For Rent” sign has hung over the door of a gay bar on Christopher Street. It would hardly be news: Bars open and close every day—and this one isn’t even the oldest one on the block. But because of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Anne B. Dalton
9,841 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Dalton discusses the role of incest and child abuse in Barnes's work, especially in her play, The Dove.
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Critical Essay by Susan Edmunds
9,676 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Edmunds asserts in a discussion of Barnes's Ryder, that "Barnes makes repeated, figurative use of the narrative of a virgin's violation to foreground the ultimate complicity between middle-class reformers and the structures of oppression they would reform, while eschewing the scandalous appeal to fact on which such projects depend."
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Jeanne Campbell Reesman (Winter 1992)
8,948 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Reesman compares Barnes's Nightwood to Dante's The Divine Comedy.
 


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