Judging by its cover, Part 1

Beeston, Alix ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6356-7931, Dabashi, Pardis, Cheng, Anne Anlin, Groo, Katherine, Lenssen, Anneka and Thaggert, Miriam 2024. Judging by its cover, Part 1. [Online]. Modernism/modernity. Available at: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/judgin...

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Abstract

On October 26, 1936, T. S. Eliot wrote a letter to American writer and host of an influential Parisian literary salon, Natalie Barney. In it he admitted with discernible embarrassment that his most recent author at Faber & Faber, Djuna Barnes—whose Ladies Almanack (1928) was about Barney’s salon and featured her as the character Dame Evangeline Musset—did not approve of the design for the first edition of Nightwood. “I must explain,” he writes, “that we didn’t find out until after publication that Miss Barnes particularly dislikes the colour purple.” Not only had Faber & Faber produced the volume in a rich-toned purple cloth, but, Eliot continued, “There are also one or two howlers by way of misprints to which she has called our attention.”

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Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration N Fine Arts > ND Painting N Fine Arts > NE Print media N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general P Language and Literature > PS American literature T Technology > TR Photography
Publisher:	Modernism/modernity
Last Modified:	30 May 2024 16:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169097

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