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Abstract Expressionism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Acropolis of Athens, ref1
Agnes Grey (A. Brontë), ref1
Agnes Martin and Me (Woodman), ref1
Akins, Zoe, ref1
Albers, Anni and Josef, ref1
Alcott, Louisa May, ref1, ref2
Aldrich, Richard, ref1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV show), ref1
Allende, Isabel, ref1
All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant (Carter), ref1
American University, ref1
Angel at My Table (film), ref1, ref2
Angelou, Maya, ref1
Anthracite Fields (Wolfe composition), ref1
Antin, Eleanor, ref1
Antiphon, The (Barnes), ref1
Arbus, Diane, ref1
Arbus, Howard, ref1
Argonauts, The (Nelson), ref1
Art Deco, ref1
Art of Cruelty, The (Nelson), ref1
Art Students League, ref1
Asawa, Ruth, ref1
Ashbery, John, ref1
At Fault (Chopin), ref1
Atlantic Monthly, ref1
Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), ref1
Autobiography (A. Trollope), ref1
Awakening, The (Chopin), ref1
A–Z West, ref1
Bach, Johann Sebastian, ref1
Backward Glance, A (Wharton), ref1
Bagehot, Walter, ref1
Balanchine, George, ref1
Bambara, Toni Cade, ref1
Bang on a Can (music collective), ref1, ref2
Bankhead, Tallulah, ref1
Banton, Travis, ref1
Barnard, A. M. (Alcott’s pseudonym), ref1
Barnes, Djuna, ref1, ref2, ref3
Barney, Natalie Clifford, ref1
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, ref1
Bashkirtseff, Marie, ref1, ref2
Batten, Mabel “Ladye,” ref1
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe), ref1
Bausch, Pina, ref1
Beach, Sylvia, ref1
Bechet, Sidney, ref1
Becquerel, Henri, ref1
Beethoven, Ludwig van, ref1
Bell, Quentin, ref1
Bell, Vanessa, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bells Are Ringing (musical), ref1
Benefactor, The (Sontag), ref1, ref2
Bewitched (TV show), ref1
Bidart, Frank, ref1
Bishop, Elizabeth, ref1
Black Feeling, Black Talk (Giavanni), ref1
Black Judgement (Giovanni), ref1
Black Mountain College, ref1
Bloch, Lucienne, ref1
Blood Memory (Graham), ref1, ref2
Bloombury group, ref1
Blue Angel, The (film), ref1
Blue Flowers, The (Fitzgerald), ref1
Blue Stockings Society, ref1
Bluets (Nelson), ref1
Boissevain, Eugen, ref1
Bolshevik Revolution, ref1
Bonheur, Le (film), ref1
Bonjour Tristesse (Sagan), ref1
Book of the Month Club, ref1
Boonville, Calif., ref1
Bourke-White, Margaret, ref1
Bowen, Elizabeth, ref1
Bowen, Stella, ref1
Bradstreet, Anne, ref1
Bray, Charlotte, ref1
Brent, Linda. See Jacobs, Harriet
Bring Up the Bodies (Mantel), ref1
Britten, Benjamin, ref1
Brooklyn College, ref1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, ref1
Brown, Jared, ref1
Browning, Pen, ref1
Burne-Jones, Edward, ref1
Butler, Octavia, ref1
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Cameron, Alan, ref1
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, ref1
Capote, Truman, ref1
Carr, Cornelia, ref1
Carter, Elizabeth, ref1
Casa Guidi (Browning apartment), ref1
Cézanne, Paul, ref1
Chanel No. 5, ref1
Charleston (Bell’s estate), ref1
Chéri (Colette), ref1
Chicago, University of, ref1
Children’s Hour, The (Hellman), ref1
Chopin, Felix, ref1
Chopin, Kate, ref1
Chorley, Henry, ref1
Cimarron (Ferber), ref1
Claridge, Laura, ref1
Claudine à l’école (Colette), ref1
Cleo from 5 to 7 (film), ref1
Cocteau, Jean, ref1
Coleman, Emily, ref1
Colette, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Color Purple, The (Walker), ref1
Columbia University, ref1
Comden, Betty, ref1
Commentary, ref1
Connecticut, ref1
Connolly, Cyril, ref1
Constant, Benjamin, ref1
Coppet, Switzerland, ref1
Cordelier de la Noue, Amélie, ref1
Coronation Street (TV show), ref1
Cox, Renee, ref1
Coyne, Petah, ref1
Cromwell, Thomas, ref1
Cunningham, Merce, ref1
Curie, Irene, ref1
Curie, Pierre, ref1
Daguerréotypes (documentary), ref1
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Currey), ref1, ref2
Dalí, Salvador, ref1
Damia, Marisa, ref1
Dance to the Piper (de Mille), ref1
Dandré, Victor, ref1
Daniel Deronda (Eliot), ref1
Dany, Louise, ref1
Darien, Conn., ref1
David (Michelangelo), ref1
Death of the Heart, The (Bowen), ref1
Deerbrook (Martineau), ref1
Deffand, Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du, ref1
de Kooning, Willem, ref1
DeMille, Cecil B., ref1
de Mille, William C., ref1
Deutsche Oper (Berlin), ref1
Devil Girl from Mars (film), ref1 Devon countryside, England, ref2
Didion, Joan, ref1
Dillard, Annie, ref1
Dinesen, Isak, ref1, ref2, ref3
Domain of Perfect Affection (Bonheur’s estate), ref1
Domestic Manners of the Americans (F. Trollope), ref1
Donati, William, ref1
Drawn from Life (Bowen), ref1
Dunham, Hayden, ref1
Duras, Marguerite, ref1
East Essex, England, ref1
Easton, Carol, ref1
East Village, N.Y., ref1, ref2
École des Beaux-Arts (Paris), ref1, ref2
Einstein, Albert, ref1
Elements of Style, The (Strunk), ref1
El Greco, ref1
Eliot, George (Mary Anne Evans), ref1
Epictetus, ref1
Escobar, María Sol. See Marisol
Ethan Frome (Wharton), ref1
Etiquette (Post), ref1
Evans, Mary Anne. See Eliot, George
Everest, Louie, ref1
Evergreens (Dickinson’s brother’s house), ref1
“Excuses” column (Frame), ref1
Fabulous Lunts, The (Brown), ref1
Farrell, Eileen, ref1
“Fatal Interview” (Millay), ref1
Feldman, Morton, ref1
Felix Holt (Eliot), ref1
Ferber, Edna, ref1
Ferrante, Elena, ref1
First Bad Man, The (July), ref1
Fisk University, ref1
Fitzgerald, Maria, ref1
Fitzgerald, Penelope, ref1
Flanner, Janet, ref1
Flaubert, Gustave, ref1
Florence, Italy, ref1
Flowering Judas (Porter), ref1
Folies Bergère (Paris), ref1
Ford, Ford Madox, ref1
For My People (Walker), ref1
Fox, Charles, ref1
Frame, Janet, ref1
Frankenstein (Shelley), ref1
Frankenthaler, Helen, ref1, ref2
Franklin, Ruth, ref1
French Enlightenment, ref1
Fry, Roger, ref1
Fuller, Buckminster, ref1
Fuller, Margaret, ref1
Garelick, Rhonda K., ref1
Garnett, David “Bunny,” ref1
Gaskell, Elizabeth, ref1
Gauthier-Villars, Bernard, ref1
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Gentleman’s Quarterly, ref1
Geoffrin, Marie-Thérèse Rodet, ref1, ref2
Giant (Ferber), ref1
Gigi (Colette), ref1
Gilligan’s Island (TV show), ref1
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Ginzburg, Liza, ref1
Ginzburg, Natalia, ref1
Giovanni, Nikki, ref1
Givner, Joan, ref1
Godwin, William, ref1
Goldman Sachs building (New York), ref1
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), ref1
Goodman, Dena, ref1
Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys), ref1
Good Soldier, The (Ford), ref1
Gordon, Michael, ref1
Gorilla, My Love (Bambara), ref1
Grant, Duncan, ref1
Grass Is Singing, The (Lessing), ref1
Gray, Eileen, ref1
Green, Adolph, ref1
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Gruen, John, ref1
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Guggenheim, Peggy, ref1, ref2, ref3
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Hambling, Maggi, ref1
Hammett, Dashiell, ref1
Hansberry, Lorraine, ref1, ref2
Hardscrabble Farm (Hellman’s property), ref1
Harper’s Bazaar, ref1
Hartigan, Grace, ref1, ref2, ref3
Haworth Parsonage (Brontë family home), ref1
Hayford Hall (Guggenheim’s rented home), ref1
Heat of the Day, The (Bowen), ref1, ref2
Hellman, Lillian, ref1
Hepburn, Katharine, ref1
Herald Tribune, ref1
Herold, J. Christopher, ref1
Herrera, Hayden, ref1
Herring, Phillip, ref1
Heti, Sheila, ref1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ref1
High Sierra (film), ref1
High Times, ref1
Historie de ma vie (Sand), ref1n
History Portraits (Sherman), ref1
Hitch-Hiker, The (film), ref1
Holms, John Ferrar, ref1, ref2
Homestead (Dickinson’s house), ref1, ref2
Horse Fair, The (Bonheur), ref1
Hosmer, Harriet, ref1
House (Whiteread), ref1
House in Paris, The (Bowen), ref1
House of Mirth, The (Wharton), ref1
House of the Spirits, The (Allende), ref1, ref2
Hurst, Fannie, ref1
Hurston, Zora Neale, ref1, ref2
Hyphenated Villa (Villa Trait d’Union; Barney’s house), ref1
Idlewild (Willis estate), ref1
Imperial Russian Ballet, ref1
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs), ref1
Infinity Net (Kusama), ref1
Iowa, University of, ref1
I Put a Spell on You (Simone), ref1
Jackson, Shirley, ref1
Jacobs, Harriet, ref1
Jamaica, ref1
James, Henry, ref1
James, William, ref1
Jane Eyre (C. Brontë), ref1
Johnson, Samuel, ref1
Jonas, Joan, ref1
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Juilliard School of Music (New York), ref1
July, Miranda, ref1
Kafka, Franz, ref1
Kalamazoo College, ref1
Katzen, Lila, ref1
Kay, Ronald, ref1
Kearns, Martha, ref1
Kenya, ref1
Keynes, John Maynard, ref1
Kind of Magic, A (Ferber), ref1
Kindred (Butler), ref1
King, Carole, ref1
Kiss, The (film), ref1
Klein, Carole, ref1
Kligman, Ruth, ref1
Klumpke, Anna, ref1, ref2, ref3
Kollwitz, Hans, ref1
Kollwitz, Käthe, ref1
Kramer, Hilton, ref1
Krasner, Lee, ref1
Kurth, Peter, ref1
Kusama, Yayoi, ref1
La Casa Azul (Kahlo family home), ref1
Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (Ford), ref1
Lagoon and Other Stories, The (Frame), ref1
L’Aiglon (Rostand), ref1
Lang, David, ref1
Lanier, Albert, ref1
Lapsley, Gaillard, ref1
Lawrence, Gertrude, ref1
Leaning Tower and Other Stories, The (Porter), ref1
Lee, Hermione, ref1
Leen, Nina, ref1
Lempicka, Tadeusz, ref1
Lempicka, Tamara de, ref1, ref2
Lenglet, Ella. See Rhys, Jean
Lespinasse, Julie de, ref1
Lewes, George Henry, ref1
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), ref1
Little Foxes, The (Hellman), ref1
Little Image series (Krasner), ref1
Little Women (Alcott), ref1, ref2, ref3
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“Lottery, The” (Jackson), ref1
Louis XVI, King of France, ref1
Louvre (Paris), ref1
Lover, The (Duras), ref1
Lowell, Robert, ref1
Lubow, Arthur, ref1
Lyon, Hugh Lee, ref1
MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire), ref1
“Maniac Bride, The” (Alcott), ref1
Mansfield, Katherine, ref1
Mantel, Hilary, ref1
Marías, Javier, ref1
Marisol (María Sol Escobar), ref1, ref2
Markus, Julia, ref1
Maroons, ref1
Marouzé, Marie-Hélène, ref1
Martin, Agnes, ref1
Martineau, Harriet, ref1, ref2
Mathews, Harry, ref1
Matisse, Henri, ref1
Matteson, John, ref1
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Meade, Marion, ref1
Meckseper, Josephine, ref1
Mehretu, Julie, ref1
Men and Women (Browning), ref1
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Michelangelo, ref1
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“Middle Years, The” (James), ref1
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Minter, Marilyn, ref1
Mitchell, Joan, ref1, ref2, ref3
Mitchell, Margaret, ref1
Modeling My Life (Scudder), ref1, ref2
Monet, Claude, ref1
Monk, Meredith, ref1
Monk’s House (Woolfs’ country retreat), ref1, ref2
Montagu, Elizabeth, ref1
Montesquieu, ref1
Moore, George, ref1
Moore, Marianne, ref1
“Moose, The” (Bishop), ref1
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the Mount (Wharton’s estate), ref1, ref2
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, ref1
M Train (Smith), ref1
Mural (Mehretu), ref1
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Mussolini, Benito, ref1
“My Day” column (Roosevelt), ref1, ref2
“My Vocation” (Ginzburg), ref1
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, ref1
Natural Woman, A (King), ref1
Naylor, Gloria, ref1
Necker, Suzanne, ref1
Nelson, Maggie, ref1
Nemser, Cindy, ref1
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New York Post, ref1
New York Times, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
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Nietzsche, Friedrich, ref1
Nightwood (Barnes), ref1, ref2
Niki de Saint Phalle (perfume), ref1
Nilsson, Birgit, ref1
Norman, Jessye, ref1
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Nunez, Sigrid, ref1
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O’Casey, Sean, ref1
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O’Gorman, Juan, ref1
O’Hara, Frank, ref1
Oklahoma! (musical), ref1, ref2
Old Maid, The (Wharton), ref1
On Photography (Sontag), ref1
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On the Town (musical), ref1
Opie, Catherine, ref1
Out of Africa (Dinesen), ref1
Owls Do Cry (Frame), ref1
Oxford University, ref1
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Paley, Grace, ref1
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Paris Review, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
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Patternmaster (Butler), ref1
“Pauline’s Passion and Punishment” (Alcott), ref1
Pavlova, Anna, ref1
Peter Pan (musical), ref1
Peters, Margot, ref1
Piano, The (film), ref1
Picasso, Pablo, ref1
Poems (Barrett), ref1
Pointe Courte, La (film), ref1
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Porter, Katherine Anne, ref1, ref2
Portrait of Myself (Bourke-White), ref1
Post, Amy, ref1
Post, Emily, ref1
Post, Ned, ref1
Pound, Ezra, ref1
Private Lives (Coward), ref1
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Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry), ref1
Rambler, ref1
Rauschenberg, Robert, ref1
Red Shoes, The (fairy tale), ref1
Regina Coeli prison (Rome), ref1
Reich, Nancy B., ref1
Rhode Island School of Design, ref1
Rhys, Jean (Ella Lenglet), ref1, ref2
Richmond, George, ref1
Rieff, David, ref1, ref2, ref3
Riopelle, Jean-Paul, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ritchie, Charles, ref1
Ritz hotel (Paris), ref1
Rizzo, Willy, ref1
Road to the City, The (Ginzburg), ref1
Robeson, Paul, ref1
Rockefeller, John D., ref1
Rodeo (ballet), ref1
Roosevelt, Anna, ref1
Roosevelt, Eleanor, ref1
Rossetti, Christina, ref1
Rossetti, William, ref1
Royal Academy of Music (Stockholm), ref1
Rubens, Peter Paul, ref1
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ref1
Saint Phalle, Niki de, ref1, ref2
Salt Eaters, The (Bambara), ref1
San Ángel, Mexico City, ref1, ref2
Sand, George, ref1, ref2, ref2n
San Francisco Art Institute, ref1
Sarton, May, ref1
Saturday Evening Post, ref1
Scallop (Hambling), ref1
Schiaparelli, Elsa, ref1, ref2
Schneemann, Carolee, ref1
Schopenhauer, Arthur, ref1
Schumaker, Lulu, ref1
Schumann, Clara, ref1
Schumann, Robert, ref1
Sea Birds Are Still Alive, The (Bambara), ref1
Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, ref1, ref2
Seattle Times, ref1
Sea Wall, The (Duras), ref1
Sea Wolf, The (film), ref1
Seven Gothic Tales (Dinesen), ref1
Seyersted, Per, ref1
Shange, Ntozake, ref1
Shelley, Mary, ref1
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, ref1
Sherman, Cindy, ref1
Ship of Fools (Porter), ref1, ref2
Shirley (C. Brontë), ref1
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Franklin), ref1
Show Boat (Ferber), ref1
Sills, Beverly, ref1
Singin’ in the Rain (film), ref1
Smetana, Bedřich, ref1
Smile Please (Rhys), ref1
Smith, Patti, ref1
Smith, Zadie, ref1
Soares, Lota de Macedo, ref1
So Big (Ferber), ref1
“soft Cubism,” ref1
Sontag, Susan, ref1, ref2, ref3
Sorbonne, ref1
Souhami, Diana, ref1
Southern California, University of, ref1
Souvenirs Indiscrets (Barney), ref1
Springs, N.Y., ref1
Squab Farm, The (theater production), ref1
Staël, Germaine de, ref1
Steepletop (Millay’s berry farm), ref1, ref2
Stein, Gertrude, ref1
Sternberg, Josef von, ref1
Stevenson, Robert Louis, ref1
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, ref1
Strauss, Richard, ref1
Tapestry (album), ref1
Tarot Garden (monument sculpture garden), ref1
Taylor, Elizabeth, ref1
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (A. Brontë), ref1
Tencin, Madame de, ref1
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), ref1
They Drive by Night (film), ref1
Thin Man, The (Hammett), ref1
13 Beautiful Women (film), ref1
Thompson, Dorothy, ref1
Thompson, Malvina “Tommy,” ref1
Thurman, Judith, ref1
Times (London), ref1
Tinguely, Jean, ref1
Toklas, Alice B., ref1
Top of the Lake (TV series), ref1
Toscanini, Arturo, ref1
Transatlantic Review, ref1
Trollope, Fanny, ref1
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, ref1
Trotsky, Leon, ref1
Turbeville, Deborah, ref1
Twilight Zone, The (TV show), ref1
Tyrell, George, ref1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), ref1
UN Commission on Human Rights, ref1
United Nations, ref1
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), ref1
“Upon a Fit of Sickness” (Bradstreet), ref1
Valéry, Paul, ref1
Vanity Fair, ref1
Varda, Agnès, ref1
Villa Trait d’Union (Hyphenated Villa; Barney’s house), ref1
Villette (C. Brontë), ref1
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A (Wollstonecraft), ref1
Virginia Tech, ref1
Vogeler, Heinrich, ref1
Voltaire, ref1
Wagner, Richard, ref1
Walker, Alice, ref1
Walker, Margaret, ref1
Walker, Rebecca, ref1
Walpole, Horace, ref1
Watch on the Rhine (Hellman), ref1
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), ref1
West, Rebecca, ref1
Wharton, Edith, ref1, ref2, ref3
White, Palmer, ref1
White, Stanford, ref1
Whiteread, Rachel, ref1
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), ref1
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys), ref1, ref2
Wilde, Dolly, ref1
Wilde, Oscar, ref1
Willis, Cornelia, ref1
Wolfe, Julia, ref1
Wolff, Harold George, ref1
Wolf Hall (Mantel), ref1, ref2
Wollstonecraft, Mary, ref1
Women of Brewster Place, The (Naylor), ref1
Women’s School of Art (Munich), ref1
Wonderful Town (musical), ref1
Woodman, Donald, ref1
Woolf, Leonard, ref1, ref2, ref3
Woolf, Virginia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Works Progress Administration, ref1
World Review, ref1
Worpswede, Germany, ref1
Written Lives (Marías), ref1
Wuthering Heights (E. Brontë), ref1
You Learn by Living (Roosevelt), ref1
Zittel, Andrea, ref1