20 Rue Jacob and the Temple of Friendship
Paris, 1909–1972
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The places they lived.
A Washington household, a Bar Harbor summer, the streets and gardens of Paris, and the long literary afterlife of Lesbos. These places shaped opportunities, expectations, and the people who moved through them.
Place / Social history
Where these lives unfolded
Each place carried its own laws, customs, possibilities and risks. These studies distinguish historic fact from the atmosphere of the novels.
Bar Harbor in the Gilded Age
Maine, 1890s
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Greece, antiquity and 1900s
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United States, late nineteenth century
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