In the years before and after the Great War, creative people gathered in salons in European drawing rooms, most hosted by women. In London the Bloomsbury Group centered around novelist Virginia Woolf and her sister, painter Vanessa Bell. In Paris, artists, then writers, came to the evenings hosted by writer Gertrude Stein and her fellow-American partner, Alice B. Toklas. What are the similarities and differences between these women, socializing with creative men like Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald? We will look at their relationships with each other, as well as the networks they created in Bloomsbury and the Left Bank.
((Kathleen Dixon Donnelly - Tuesday - Zoom))
