A01=Lois Palken Rudnick
Author_Lois Palken Rudnick
Autobiography
Biography
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Letters
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- ISBN 9780826309952
- Weight: 552g
- Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1987
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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She was ""the most peculiar common denominator that society, literature, art and radical revolutionaries ever found in New York and Europe."" So claimed a Chicago newspaper reporter in the 1920s of Mabel Dodge Luhan, who attracted leading literary and intellectual figures to her circle for over four decades. Not only was she mistress of a grand salon, an American Madame de Stael, she was also a leading symbol of the New Woman: sexually emancipated, self-determining, and in control of her destiny. In many ways, her life is the story of America's emergence from the Victorian age. Lois Rudnick has written a unique and definitive biography that examines all aspects of Mabel Dodge Luhan's real and imagined lives, drawing on fictional portraits of Mabel, including those by D H Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and Gertrude Stein, as well as on Mabel's own voluminous memoirs, letters, and fiction. Rudnick not only assesses Mabel as muse to men of genius but also considers her seriously as a writer, activist, and spirit of the age.
Lois Palken Rudnick
