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Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories, published serially by Harcourt Brace in the 1930s, re-emerges in this brilliantly edited version as a compelling story of one woman's rebellion against the whole ghastly social structure under which the United States had been buried since the Victorian era. Luhan fled the Gilded Age prison of the upper classes to lead a life of notoriety among Europe and America's leading artists, writers, and social visionaries, and build a series of utopian domains aimed at curing the malaise of the modern age. Luhan's struggle for self-expression and community took her from stolid Buffalo (1879-1904) to a Medici Villa in Florence (1905-1912), where she reigned as a Renaissance princess with an expatriate community devoted to life for the sake of art; to the radical bohemia of Greenwich Village (1912-1917), where she established the most famous salon in American history; to New Mexico (1918-1962), where she married a Pueblo Indian, and put Taos on the map of the international avant-garde, bringing, among her scores of visitors, D. H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Willa Cather, and Ansel Adams. In prose, paint, poetry, and photography, all of them celebrated her frontier paradise. Now, forty years after her death, Luhan has found an editor who makes the best of her memoirs available in one abridged 265-page volume. It includes an introduction and a directory of the luminaries who were part of her circle, including Gertrude Stein, John Reed, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Walter Lippmann, Isadora Duncan, and Alfred Stieglitz.
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