Tag: djuna barnes

  • #17: ‘My Sisters and I at a New York Prizefight’ by Djuna Barnes

    #17: ‘My Sisters and I at a New York Prizefight’ by Djuna Barnes

    ‘My Sisters and I at a New York Prizefight’ is an article taken from ‘Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth’, a collection of the early works of avant-garde writer Djuna Barnes. The article describes Barnes and a group of women friends attending a boxing event in 1914, at Brown’s Athletic Club in New York, headlined…