Study Group Details
1620: “Such Friends”: Literary 1920s Women
Tuesday1:00 - 2:30
Starting June 24
Online
In the years before and after the Great War, creative people gathered in salons in European drawing rooms, most hosted by women. In London the Bloomsbury Group centered around novelist Virginia Woolf and her sister, painter Vanessa Bell. In Paris, artists, then writers, came to the evenings hosted by writer Gertrude Stein and her fellow-American partner, Alice B. Toklas. What are the similarities and differences between these women, socializing with creative men like Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald? We will look at their relationships with each other, as well as the networks they created in Bloomsbury and the Left Bank. This study group meets at 1:00-2:30 PM on Tuesdays from June 24-July 1. This study group has a high class size capacity.
This course is being offered through the OLLI at Carnegie Mellon University.
This study group is new
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: Online
Hours of Reading: No required reading
Study Group Leader(s):
Kathleen Dixon Donnelly
Kathleen Dixon Donnelly has been involved in the creative process for over 40 years. Her dissertation for her Ph.D. from Dublin City U., “Such Friends,” was on writers in the early 20th century salons. Kathleen’s blog about “The Literary 1920s” at www.suchfriends.wordpress.com are published as “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s. Volumes I through V are on Amazon. Kathleen’s thesis for her MBA from Duquesne University was Manager as Muse: Maxwell Perkins’ Work with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe, also on Amazon. Kathleen has done presentations to groups in the UK and US, including Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes and Southbank Center. Kathleen relocated from the UK to her hometown of Pittsburgh, where she lives with her husband and cats, Gertrude Stein and Robert Benchley.