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She escaped her restrictive childhood home and gate kept inheritance by eloping to the Philippines and escaped the Philippines’ marriage by fleeing out a window in the dead of night. Rather than through her own writing, you probably have heard of today’s lady in passing, mostly in relation to Janet or perhaps in relation to Gurdjieff, a philosopher, mystic, and composer. She’s another of our background players in this universe. It’s Solita Solano.
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner by Brenda Wineapple
Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank by Andrea Weiss
Ladies of the Rope: Gurdjieff’s Special Left Bank Women’s Group by William Patrick Patterson
Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940 by Shari Benstock