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The Cramoisy queen a life of Caresse Crosby
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Caresse Crosby rejected the culturally prescribed roles for women of her era and background in search of an independent, creative, and socially responsible life. Poet, memoirist, advocate of women'...
Caresse Crosby rejected the culturally prescribed roles for women of her era and background in search of an independent, creative, and socially responsible life. Poet, memoirist, advocate of women's rights and the peace movement, Crosby published and promoted modern writers and artists such as Hart Crane, Dorothy Parker, Salvador Dalí, and Romare Bearden. She also earned a place in the world of fashion by patenting one of the earliest versions of the brassiere. Behind her public success was a chaotic life: three marriages, two divorces, the suicide of her husband Harry Crosby, s
Details
- Creator
- Linda Hamalian
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1282139002, 9786613808301, 0809386461, 1441623353, 0809329018
- OCLC
- ocn817796599, ocn459790602
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index.
- English
- Spunky little rich girl -- Polly meets Harry -- How Polly became Caresse -- A woman of many trades -- Treasures for the Black Sun Press -- The death of Harry Crosby -- Business or pleasure -- Atlantic crossings -- Mind over matter -- Old friends, new friends -- A woman of influence -- Back in the avant-garde -- Mondialization -- Fame -- A thirty-year plan -- How to run a castle -- Keeping the faith
Subjects
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Publishers and publishing -- France -- Biography.
- Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
- Literature publishing -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Crosby, Caresse, 1892-1970.