Paris Reader: Setting Copy.

Janet Flanner
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Flanner, Janet. [Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939.] Edited by Irving Drutman. [New York: The Viking Press, (1972).]

Ca. 100 leaves; photocopies of Flanner’s New Yorker excerpts, pasted to annotated leaves.

A selection of Janet Flanner’s “Letters from Paris” written for The New Yorker between 1925 and 1939, collected with a working title, “This Mortal Coil: A Paris Reader (1925 – 1939)” (as noted in her hand in pencil on her manuscript title page). In her bi-weekly New Yorker column signed with the pen name “Genêt,” Flanner detailed salient artistic, social, and political events taking place in Paris during the mid-twenties and thirties. Readers relished Flanner’s witty profiles of acclaimed literary figures like Wharton, Cunard, Joyce, and Hemingway, as well as her colorful anecdotes about cultural icons such as Josephine Baker and Mae West. The excerpts chosen here by Flanner have been retitled and many lightly revised. The date and page number of their first appearance in The New Yorker is noted in most instances.

An independent woman and a lifelong feminist Janet Flanner (1892 – 1978) was intimate with some of the most significant creative women of her time, many of whom she introduced to the public in her column. Her role in the rise of feminist modernism has yet to be thoroughly investigated.

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