Women, celebrity, and literary culture between the wars

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hammill, Faye
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Literary modernism series.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • "How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette" : Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity fair
  • "Brains are really everything" : Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes
  • "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra" : Mae West as author
  • "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island" : L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and early Hollywood
  • "The best product of this century" : Margaret Kennedy's The constant nymph
  • "Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?": Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm
  • "Wildest hopes exceeded" : E. M. Delafield's Diary of a provincial lady.