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Too Long a Sacrifice

The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

By: Maud Gonne,John Quinn,Janis Londraville

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Too Long a Sacrifice

The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

By: Maud Gonne,John Quinn,Janis Londraville

This collection of letters between Maud Gonne (Irish activist, actress, and long-time love of W. B. Yeats) and John Quinn (Irish-American lawyer, art collector, and patron) deals with art, literature, Irish politics, and the horrific conflicts of the early twentieth century. Their letters are filled with details about the Irish fight for freedom, and how it affected Yeats, Pound, Joyce, and other friends; about Gonne's never-ending battle to establish a school feeding program for the starving children of Ireland; and about the alarming changes in the political and social world of their time.

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Susquehanna University Press

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1575910241

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9781575910246

The Most Beautiful Man in the World

Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol

By: Janis Londraville,Richard Londraville

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Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol

By: Janis Londraville,Richard Londraville

When Andy Warhol cast Paul Swan (1883?1972) in three films in the mid-1960s, he knew that the octogenarian had once been internationally hailed as ?the most beautiful man in the world? and as ?Nijinsky?s successor.? Arthur Hammerstein had advertised Swan as ?a reincarnated Greek God,? and George and Ira Gershwin had celebrated his beauty in their musical Funny Face. What Warhol didn?t know was that Swan had also been called ?America?s Leonardo,? portrait artist of the famous and the infamous, including writer Willa Cather, aviator Charles Lindbergh, British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and dictator Benito Mussolini. This book is the first to tell Swan?s story, from his days as a world-famous dancer and artist, through his film career?which ran from silent pictures, including De Mille?s Ten Commandments (1923), to Warhol?s Camp, Paul Swan, and Paul Swan I-IV (1965)?to his portrait painting late in life when Nelson Rockefeller?s children, Malachy McCourt, and Pope Paul VI were among his subjects. With unprecedented access to Swan?s scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and an unpublished memoir that tells the story of a bisexual man trying to build a public life in perilous times, Janis and Richard Londraville reconstruct the intriguing life of this uniquely interesting figure, whose story, although widely glossed in the press, was until now never fully known.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803229690

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9780803229693

Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends

By: Richard Londraville,Janis Londraville

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Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends

By: Richard Londraville,Janis Londraville

Jeanne Foster challenged the accepted role for women at the turn of the twentieth century. Born on a hardscrabble farm in the Adirondack Mountains in 1879, she was hailed as an important voice in American poetry by 1916 when her first books of verse, Neighbors of Yesterday and Wild Apples were published. She had early success as a model—she was the Harrison Fisher girl of 1903—and later became a journalist for the American Review of Reviews. In 1918, she met John Quinn, patron of the arts, which placed her in the middle of some of the most important literary and artistic movements in the twentieth century. She counted among her friends John Butler and William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brancusi. This book reveals her dark affair with Aleister Crowley and her great friendship with Tomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. Today, Jeanne Foster lies buried in Chestertown, New York, next to her old friend John Butler Yeats.

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Syracuse University Press

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081560730X

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9780815607304

Corbino

From Rubens to Ringling

By: Janis Londraville,Richard Londraville

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Corbino

From Rubens to Ringling

By: Janis Londraville,Richard Londraville

A biography of one of Americas neglected grand masters.

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1441688889

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9781441688880

Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends

By: Richard Londraville,Janis Londraville

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Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends

By: Richard Londraville,Janis Londraville

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On Poetry, Painting, and Politics

The Letters of May Morris and John Quinn

By: May Morris,John Quinn

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On Poetry, Painting, and Politics

The Letters of May Morris and John Quinn

By: May Morris,John Quinn

. The fifty-five letters between May and Quinn and the editor's discovery of May's forgotten play, Lady Griselda's Dream (reprinted here for the first time since 1898) make this volume the key that unlocks hitherto unknown information about William Morris's youngest daughter and "the man from New York.

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Susquehanna University Press

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0945636962

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9780945636960

The Most Beautiful Man in the World

Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol

By: Janis Londraville,Richard Londraville

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Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol

By: Janis Londraville,Richard Londraville

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U of Nebraska Press

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Too Long a Sacrifice

The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

By: Maud Gonne,John Quinn,Janis Londraville

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The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn

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Too Long a Sacrifice

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Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

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Corbino

Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford

On Poetry, Painting, and Politics

On Poetry, Painting, and Politics

The Most Beautiful Man in the World

The Most Beautiful Man in the World

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