Well known in the first two decades of the twentieth century for her fiction, plays, poetry, and articles, Neith Boyce (1872-1951) witnessed at first-hand many of the artistic and literary movements of the time. She is remembered today primarily for her marriage to journalist Hutchins Hapgood and their mutual struggle with the theories of free love that permeated their Greenwich Village circle. This edition of Boyce's hitherto unpublished autobiography and diaries foregrounds Neith herself, portraying her as a one-woman ...
Read More
Well known in the first two decades of the twentieth century for her fiction, plays, poetry, and articles, Neith Boyce (1872-1951) witnessed at first-hand many of the artistic and literary movements of the time. She is remembered today primarily for her marriage to journalist Hutchins Hapgood and their mutual struggle with the theories of free love that permeated their Greenwich Village circle. This edition of Boyce's hitherto unpublished autobiography and diaries foregrounds Neith herself, portraying her as a one-woman exemplar of the ideas we now group together under the name of modernism.
Read Less
