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The Triadic Association of Emily Holmes Coleman, T. S. Eliot, and Djuna Barnes.

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From: ANQ
Date: 19990922
Author:FUCHS, MIRIAM

Since the 1970s, with the University of Maryland's acquisition of Djuna Barnes's manuscripts and letters, scholars have been able to evaluate T. S. Eliot's association with the author of Nightwood (1936).(1) Only faintly suggested by Eliot's odd introduction to Barnes's modernist work of fiction, the tensions of Eliot and Barnes's relationship are discernible throughout their correspondence, which began when Eliot agreed to take on Nightwood and continued until he died.(2) Since the late 1980s, scholars have begun to appreciate a second aspect of Eliot's editorship of Nightwood, ...

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