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You may have heard of her in connection to Sylvia Beach last episode. Yes, this time it’s Adrienne Monnier, the French bookstore owner across the street from Shakespeare and Company. We dive into the French side of the scene and the other side of the Beach-Monnier-Freund love triangle.
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier w/intro by Richard McDougall
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch
The Letters of Sylvia Beach edited by Keri Walsh
Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank by Andrea Weiss
Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900 – 1940 by Shari Benstock