Ladies Almanack

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Ladies Almanack is a 1928 modernist, satirical novel by Djuna Barnes that portrays a thinly veiled, lesbian-centered literary circle in Paris through an ornate, mock-Elizabethan style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf modernist novel
novel
satirical novel
author Djuna Barnes
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPublicationFormat limited edition
genre lesbian literature
modernist literature
satire
hasCulturalContext Anglophone expatriate community in Paris
Parisian avant-garde
hasFictionalFormOf Natalie Clifford Barney
members of Barney’s Paris salon
hasNarrativeMode third-person narration
hasSubgenre queer modernism
roman à clef
hasTheme expatriate life
female friendship
gender and sexuality
lesbian relationships
literary salons
social satire
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryPeriod interwar period
movement modernism
narrativeFocus lesbian-centered literary circle
notableFor archaic, pseudo-Elizabethan language
coded representation of lesbian culture
roman à clef elements
originalAudience Paris expatriate literary circle
portrays lesbian literary community in Paris
thinly veiled versions of real people
publicationYear 1928
settingLocation Paris
targetedCommunity lesbian readers
timePeriodOfSetting 1920s
writingStyle mock-Elizabethan
ornate

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Djuna Barnes notableWork Ladies Almanack
Spillway sharesStyleWith Ladies Almanack