ABSTRACT

Trying to persuade Richard Aldington to publish Djuna Barnes’s Ladies Almanack, Natalie Clifford Barney writes: ‘All ladies fit to figure in such an almanack should of course be eager to have a copy, and all gentlemen disapproving of them. Then the public might, with a little judicious treatment, include those lingering on the border of such islands and those eager to be ferried across.’1