The Barbizon by Paulina Bren (ebook reader browser TXT) 📕

She worked on her application: Gael Greene, “Aimez-Vous Trilobites?” in Don’t Come Back Without It (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960), 50.

When she received the telegram: Gael Greene, interview with the author, New York City, April 15, 2016.

Gael, on the other hand: Greene, interview.

It was Jane’s job: Jan Truslow, “Memo from the Guest Editor,” Mademoiselle, August 1955, 238–40.

She wanted to “bomb the Eastman Kodak people”: Greene, “Aimez-Vous Trilobites?,” 52–53.

Gael was subjected: Greene, “Aimez-Vous Trilobites?,” 54.

Gael Greene found it ironic: Greene, “Aimez-Vous Trilobites?,” 53.

“sailed between the mirrors”: Janet Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” in Embalming Mom: Essays in Life (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 3.

“in black sheath”: Nina Renata Aron, “A women’s magazine that treated its readers like they had brains, hearts, and style? Mademoiselle was it,” Timeline, https://timeline.com/mademoiselle-smart-women-magazine-1870bf328ba1.

“ ‘Believe in Pink!’ ”: Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” 3.

Janet’s automatic distaste: Burroway, video interview with Bryant.

Unlike the others: Powell, telephone interview, October 16, 2018.

During the interviews, Janet Burroway: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from May 31, 1955, 1, JB.

New York, however: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 5, 1955, 1, JB.

A few days later: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from May 31, 1955, 2, JB.

She had even more to say: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 5, 1955, 2, JB.

Peggy LaViolette liked to head off early: “Owner of the Tailored Woman Looks Back on Store’s 45 Years,” New York Times, September 29, 1964.

The floor of the main lobby: Peggy LaViolette Powell, telephone interview with the author, November 1, 2018.

By June 7, Janet Burroway wrote home: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 7, 1955, 1, JB.

It turned out that “Mr. Perfect”: Powell, correspondence, 2016.

One night, later during Joan’s second stint: Didion, “Goodbye to All That,” 228.

As the guest editor in the merchandising department: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter postmarked June 16, 1955, JB.

She had also discovered: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 9, 1955, 2–3, JB.

It certainly rated better than: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from “Sat nite” (June 14?), 1955, JB.

Midway through the month: Powell, telephone interview, October 16, 2018.

The hushed talk: Powell, telephone interview, October 16, 2018.

The day Plath came: Powell, correspondence, 2018. While Janet Burroway does not recall Plath visiting (and makes no mention of it in her letters home), in a letter to Lynne Lawner on June 8, 1955, Sylvia Plath writes that she was in New York and “lunched with cyrilly abels of mlle.”

Janet, who did not get to meet her: Burroway, video interview with Bryant.

But while a guest editor: Greene, “Aimez-Vous Trilobites?,” 55.

Guest editor-in-chief Jane Truslow: Tracy Daugherty, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 72.

All the merchandise: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 7, 1955, 3, JB.

There was the annual June gathering: Powell, telephone interview, October 16, 2018.

While Peggy delighted: Burroway, video interview with Bryant.

Betsy Talbot Blackwell also hosted a party: Powell, telephone interview, October 16, 2018.

By June 27, Janet: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 27, 1955, 3, JB.

While Gael Greene would be sidelined: Greene, “Aimez-Vous Trilobites?,” 56–57.

She had invited Tom: Powell, telephone interview, October 16, 2018.

Gael, in the meantime: Greene, “Aimez-Vous Trilobites?,” 58–59.

She was among the very youngest: Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” 4.

Early the next morning: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 11, 1955, 3, JB.

She promised her mother: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 16, 1955, 2, JB.

In 1968, the actress Cybill Shepherd: Michael Callahan, “Sorority on E. 63rd St.,” Vanity Fair, April 2010, 172.

Jane Truslow raved to the magazine’s readers: “Memo from the Guest Editor,” Mademoiselle, College Issue, August 1955, 242.

Ultimately, what they had been: Rainey, “The Education of Joan Didion,” 10.

When Janet Burroway: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from May 30, 1955, 2, JB.

In mid-June, she confessed: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 13, 1955, 1, JB.

Writing to her parents: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 7, 1955, 3–4, JB.

“Brief rundown on activities”: Joan Didion to Peggy LaViolette, postmark July 17, 1955, Joan Didion Letters, BANC MSS 84/180 c v. 1, BLUC.

“Sacramento is killing me”: “To Peggy from Joan,” July 5, 1955, BLUC.

In the “Meet This Year’s Millies” profiles: “Meet Mlle’s Winning Team!,” Mademoiselle, August 1955, 249.

As Peggy recalled: Powell, telephone interview, November 1, 2018.

Peggy remained in Manhattan: “Meet Mlle’s Winning Team!,” Mademoiselle.

While Peggy was searching for a job: “To Peggy from Joan, Sacramento, CA,” July 1955, BLUC.

Considering that Joan Didion: While at Mademoiselle, Janet Burroway interviewed with admissions at Barnard and received a scholarship to continue her studies there, thereby leaving the University of Arizona.

Joan sat in her Vogue office: “To Peggy from Joan,” November 9, 1958, BLUC.

Jane’s husband, Peter Davison: “To Peggy from Joan,” BLUC.

Janet had concluded: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 25, 1955, 1–2, JB.

At the same time, she was also: Janet Burroway’s letters home, letter from June 25, 1955, 3, JB.

BTB realized it soon enough: Random excerpt from a draft of a speech—online, BTBC.

This was a time when: Chris Ladd, “The Last Jim Crow Generation,” Forbes, September 27, 2016.

This was at a time: Tempone, “Janet Burroway Carries On.”

CHAPTER SEVEN

After Grace was already married: Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming: A Memoir (Rockland, MA: Wheeler, 1998), 79.

Indeed, even prior to her marriage: Tim Donnelly, “The Lady Is a Vamp,” New York Post, April 7, 2013.

In 1940, Mademoiselle called the hotel: “Added Attractions,” Mademoiselle, August 1940.

That message remained consistent: “New York,” Mademoiselle, July 1957.

The newspaper promised: Gael Greene, “Lone Women,” Series, New York Post, November 25, 1957. I would like to thank Gael Greene for allowing me to photograph these articles from her own private archive.

She first met Jenny: Greene, “Lone Women,” November 18, 1957.

Gael invited her readers: Greene, “Lone Women,” November 18, 1957.

Gael stopped by the television room: Greene, “Lone Women,” November 19, 1957.

She was the self-appointed: Greene, “Lone Women,” November 20, 1957.

Even as Gael was surrounded: Greene, “Lone Women,” November 21, 1957.

Jacqueline, another resident, was a nightclub singer: Greene, “Lone