Philip Hensher

The cult of Sappho in interwar Paris

Encouraged by the openness of the French, literary-minded lesbians were drawn to the capital, where they soon made a stir in modernist circles

Sylvia Beach, reading the manuscript of James Joyce’s Ulysses, which she would publish. At least a third of the novel was added at proof stage, enormously increasing her costs

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