SuchFriends Blog
'…and say my glory was I had such friends.' — WB Yeats‘Such Friends’ Presentations by Kathleen Dixon Donnelly
Over the past few years I have given many presentations about the writers’ salons, mostly at lifelong learning programs throughout South Florida, sometimes including films and/or documentaries.
Now that we live in Birmingham, UK, I have been giving talks at the Birmingham & Midlands Institute [BMI], at their Monday lunch time lectures and on Saturday ‘Day Schools.’
If your organization would be interested in a presentation about any of the writers and artists in the early 20th century salons who I have studied, or just would like more information about them, send me an e-mail at kaydee@gypsyteacher.com. Below is a partial list of topics, but I am open to suggestions [and I am a cheap date!].
The Literary Twenties
Dublin and the Abbey Theatre
London, the Hogarth Press and Mrs. Dalloway
Paris, Shakespeare & Co. and Contact Press
New York, The New Yorker and Scribner’s
Supporters of the Arts
W B Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre
The Steins, Picasso and Matisse in Paris before the Great War
Sylvia Beach, John Quinn and the writers in Paris after the Great War
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York, Zelda Sayre and The Great Gatsby
Paris, the Murphys and Tender Is the Night
Hollywood, Sheilah Graham and The Last Tycoon
Scribner’s Editor Maxwell Perkins
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Thomas Wolfe
The Bloomsbury Painters
The Armory Show—February, 1913
“Everybody Was So Young”: The Murphys in Paris and on the Riviera
