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Sister to sister: in the days of Brother to Brother, New York's wild women held their own.(All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine)
Date: 20041026
Author:Lehoczky, Etelka

All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 * Andrea Barnet * Algonquin * $16.95

"Life should be ecstasy," the writer Margaret Anderson once said to her lover Jane Heap. Heap replied, "Why limit me to ecstasy?" That exchange perfectly captures the madcap spirit of All-Night Party, Andrea Barnet's glimpse into the salons, nightclubs, and rollicking parties of the teens and '20s. where some of America's wildest women tested ecstasy's limits.

In Greenwich Village, some, like poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, had stormy affairs with members of ...

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