![]() As an aspiring writer and a young queer woman, the novel’s central narrative (the unhealthy love affair between Robin Vote and Nora Flood) appealed to me for both stylistic and personal reasons, so when the opportunity arose to study the novel in a more critical context via this research grant I jumped on the chance. I was a senior then, 20 years old, and the grant was awarded in support of research for my honors thesis, which focused on Barnes’s best-known novel, Nightwood, but also examined her body of work within the context of Modernist literature as a whole. ![]() When I was an undergraduate at Cornell University I received a grant to travel to the University of Maryland, where the Djuna Barnes archive is housed at the Hornbake Library. ![]()
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