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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
Description: Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books.A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is the extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, between the wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer. They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own – forming a community around them in Paris. Ea...