Edge OF Taos Desert Vol. 4 An escape to reality
by Mabel Dodge Luhan
- New York Harcourt, Brace and Company 1937
- 338 p
- Intimate Memories 4 Edge of Taos Desert 4 .
Includes Index
[vol. 1]. Background (1933) -- vol. 2. European experiences (1935) -- vol. 3. Movers and shakers (1936) -- vol. 4. Edge of Taos desert (1937).
Vol. 2: Green horses. The bride -- Emily and Seward -- Arthur -- Fun -- "Do you want to work?" -- Real life. Engaged -- Married -- Surprised -- Re-married -- Pregnancy -- Birth -- Death -- Accident -- France. Paris -- Burgundy -- Dim engagement -- Honeymoon -- Riviera -- Italy. Cinquecento -- Out the Porta Romana -- At the Villa Pazzi -- Colonel Ernest Roupell -- Bindo -- Making a home. Portrait of the Villa Curonia -- "Cortile" into hall -- North salon -- "Gran' salone" -- First bedroom -- Little yellow salon -- Next came the library -- Dining room -- Upstairs -- Edwin's bedroom -- White bedroom -- Out on the terrace -- Walburga, Lady Paget. A romantic grande dame -- The social gaffe -- Miss McLeod -- Duchess of Devonshire -- Esthetic. Marcelle again. Comme il faut -- "Untied are the knots..." -- Florentine vignettes. The Russians -- Mascha and Sascha -- Glady's deacon -- John D. Herron and Carrie Rand -- Reggie Temple -- Princess de Rohan but who was he? -- Henry Savage Landor -- Muriel. A group of women and a ghost. Marguerite -- Maud -- Janet -- Constance -- The swami. The Steins. Stephen Haweis. Stephen and Mrs. Ames-Lyde -- Stephen and Stan -- Gordon Craig and a great idea. Death. Duse. How the great collections are made. Edwin. With Edwin in Italy -- With Edwin in Paris -- Jacques Emile Blanche -- The story of Francesca. Depths. Haunted again. The end of that.
Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs 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--among them D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and John Reed. Intimate Memories details Luhan's assemblage of a series of utopian domains aimed at curing the malaise of the modern age and shows Luhan not just as a visionary hostess but as a talented and important writer. Googlebooks
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Luhan, Mabel Dodge 1879-1962 --Homes and haunts--New Mexico Taos.