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Intimate Memories - Abridged by Mabel Dodge Luhan (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs of one woman's rebellion against "the whole ghastly social structure" under which the United States had been buried since the Victorian era.
- Author(s): Mabel Dodge Luhan
- 296 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Women
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About the Book
At last edited into one volume, the story of one of 20th-century America's most flamboyant women, from her youth in upper-class Buffalo to her "discovery" of New Mexico.
Book Synopsis
Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs of one woman's rebellion against "the whole ghastly social structure" under which the United States had been buried since the Victorian era. Luhan fled the Gilded Age prison of the upper classes to lead a life of notoriety among Europe and America's leading artists, writers, and social visionaries--among them D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and John Reed.
Intimate Memories details Luhan's assemblage of a series of utopian domains aimed at curing the malaise of the modern age and shows Luhan not just as a visionary hostess but as a talented and important writer.
Review Quotes
"Profoundly perceptive and always at the edge of revelation . . . the writing exudes Luhan's feelings of insatiable searching."