In this talk Diana Souhami outlines the lives of mainly wealthy North American and English lesbians who chose to escape to live in Paris in order to free themselves from the patriarchal control exerted on them by their families at home.
She discusses their support for the new modernist movement in writing and art.
Further Reading
- Diana Souhami Gluck, her biography, Quercus, 1988
- Diana Souhami Gertrude and Alice, Harper Collins, l991
- Diana Souhami, Natalie and Romaine Quercus, 2004 (First published as ‘Wild Girls’)
- Diana Souhami, No Modernism Without Lesbians, Head of Zeus 2020
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