Women Writing on the French Riviera

Rosemary Lancaster, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Chevalier des Palmes académiques, is the author of Je Suis Australienne, Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945 (2008) and Poetic Illumination: René Char and his Artist Allies (2010).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPart 1: Art and Illness1 Marie Bashkirtseff’s Quest for Glory: the Nice Years and AfterEpilogue2 ‘Ordered South’: Katherine Mansfield in MentonEpiloguePart 2: High Life on the Riviera3 Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte CarloEpilogue4 Bronislava Nijinska: The Ballets Russes YearsEpilogue5 The Riviera and the Rich: Rebecca West’s The Thinking Reed (1936)EpiloguePart 3: The Mediterranean Idyll6 Rebirth in Saint-Tropez: Colette’s Break of DayEpilogue7 An Invented Childhood: Honoria Murphy in AntibesEpilogue8 Flavours of the South: the Culinary Revolutions of Elizabeth David and Julia ChildEpilogueSelective BibliographyIndex