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

Earlier in the summer of 1953: Nelson, interview.

“Sylvia saved me”: Nelson, interview.

Years earlier, Betsy Talbot Blackwell: BTB, “Suburbia. The New Challenge,” speech given to the Fashion Group, Washington, May 1955, box 20, BTBC.

By the late 1950s: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell Books, 1974), 20.

The number of women: Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 12–13.

In summer 1960: Phyllis Lee Levin, “Road from Sophocles to Spock Is Often a Bumpy One,” New York Times, June 28, 1960.

The writer Janet Burroway: Janet Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” in Embalming Mom: Essays in Life (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 6.

But it was at a party: Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” 15.

Later that year, Sylvia wrote a short story: Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” 16.

She wrote to the novelist and poet: Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” 7–8.

Looking back, one former bridesmaid: Patricia Rice, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 2, 1989, E1.

For Laurie Glazer: Levy, “Outside the Bell Jar,” 46.

Laurie was standing in line: Levy, “Outside the Bell Jar,” 43.

Even in the pages: Levy, “Outside the Bell Jar,” 47.

As for Carol LeVarn: Carol McCabe, email to Neva Nelson, May 22, 2010, NN.

Each generation has its couple: Burroway, “I Didn’t Know Sylvia Plath,” 18.

Laurie Glazer, in 1973: Laurie Glazer Levy to Neva Nelson, May 8, 1973, NN.

Neva Nelson, in a fit of patriotism: Neva Nelson, correspondence with the author, 2016.

In 1972, under pressure to bring equality: Edie Raymond Locke, interview with the author, Thousand Oaks, CA, October 25–26, 2018.

One 1972 GE: Angela Taylor, “Until Now, These Jobs Were Strictly for Coeds,” New York Times, June 14, 1972.

The eleven female guest editors: “GE Journal: Notes on 30 Hectic Days and Nights in New York,” Mademoiselle, College Issue, August 1977, 101–3.

The 1953 guest editor Laurie Glazer: Neva Nelson, newsletter to the 1953 GEs, December 1977, NN.

A young woman who was welcoming everyone: Ann Burnside Love, “The Legend of Plath, the Scent of Roses,” Washington Post, April 29, 1979. Ann Burnside Love was one of the 1953 GEs.

Already The Bell Jar had sullied their memories: Burnside Love, “The Legend of Plath.”

Looking back, Anne blamed: Winder, Pain, Parties, Work, 89. And Nelson, interview.

When Laurie Glazer expressed regret: Alex Witchel, “After ‘The Bell Jar,’ Life Went On,” New York Times, June 22, 2003. Laurie Glazer Levy recently published a novel—The Stendhal Summer—and is working on another.

After the reunion: As quoted in a letter from Neva Nelson to her fellow guest editors, February 4, 2011, NN.

Dinny Lain/Diane Johnson noted: Diane Johnson, “Novelist Remembers Sylvia Plath,” New York Magazine, May 26, 1979, 7.

CHAPTER NINE

As a “gesture”: Eve Auchincloss to Allen Ginsberg, September 23, 1959, box 4 correspondence; 1959–1960, BTBC.

The January 1960 issue created tremendous buzz: Tracy Daugherty, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 102.

Judith Innes, Radcliffe College graduate and Barbizon resident: Judith Innes, video interview with Melodie Bryant, October 16, 2012, generously shared with the author.

Tippi Hedren, the dazzling blond star: Donal Lynch, “Tippi Hedren: Why I Love Being Free as a Bird,” Belfast Telegraph, June 12, 2012.

Joan Gage, a budding writer: Joan Gage, “Those Fabulous Magazine Divas—A Memoir,” Rolling Crone, November 5, 2009, http://arollingcrone.blogspot.com/2009/11/those-fabulous-magazine-divas-memoir.html.

Joan, who was from the Midwest: Joan Gage, interview with the author, New York City, May 3, 2015.

“I think marriage is insurance”: Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl (Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 1962; 2003), 4–5.

A woman should do anything: Judith Thurman, “Helenism: The Birth of the Cosmo Girl,” New Yorker, May 11, 2009.

The novelist Mary McCarthy: As quoted in Joan Didion, “Bosses Make Lousy Lovers,” Saturday Evening Post, January 30, 1965.

Joan Didion followed Brown: Didion, “Bosses Make Lousy Lovers.”

In one of Betsy Talbot Blackwell’s: BTB, “Changing Women—And the Need to Grow with Them,” speech draft, 1956?—online, BTBC.

While Helen Gurley Brown made a name: Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 11.

Actress and Charlie’s Angel Jaclyn Smith: Jaclyn Smith, telephone interview with the author, April 8, 2016.

There was the case, for example, of Dana: Nan Robertson, “Where the Boys Are Not,” Saturday Evening Post, October 19, 1963, 28.

Betty Buckley, later the stepmother: Paul Rosenfield, “Betty Buckley Getting Her Acts Together,” Los Angeles Times, June 30, 1983.

The same year, a seventeen-year-old high-school dropout: “Lorna Yearns for Her Own Fame,” Atlanta Constitution, September 27, 1975.

A 1963 Saturday Evening Post article noted: Robertson, “Where the Boys Are Not,” 28.

Betsey Johnson, the future fashion designer: Princeton Review, “Exclusive Interview with Betsey Johnson,” in The Internship Bible, 10th ed. (New York: Princeton Review, 2005).

On that very same day: Amy Gross, interview with the author, New York City, November 29, 2018.

Days after moving into the Barbizon: Melodee K. Currier, “Boy Crazy Adventures in New York City,” IdeaGems 6, no. 1: 13, http://www.melodeecurrier.com/published-articles.html.

After the secretarial course was over: Melodee K. Currier, “First Person: ‘Mad Men’ Sexier than Ad Agencies of Real ’60s,” Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), September 24, 2011.

Phylicia Rashad, the actress: Phylicia Rashad, telephone interview with the author, April 19, 2016.

On August 26, 1970, Helen Gurley Brown: Anna Gedal, “Behind the Scenes: The 1970 Women’s March for Equality in NYC,” New-York Historical Society, March 10, 2015.

Men stood on New York’s sidewalks: Linda Charlton, “Women March Down Fifth in Equality Drive,” New York Times, August 27, 1970.

Editor-in-chief Betsy Talbot Blackwell was stepping down: Angela Taylor, “At Mademoiselle, Changing of the Guard,” New York Times, April 4, 1971.

In her parting “Editor’s Memo”: BTB, “Memo from the Editor,” Mademoiselle, June 1971, 88.

As one former resident complained: Robertson, “Where the Boys Are Not,” 30

Free afternoon tea continued: Robertson, “Where the Boys Are Not,” 30.

The Barbizon thus found itself joining forces: Lacey Fosburgh, “City Rights Unit Ponders Sex Law,” New York Times, January 15, 1971.

Even the city’s police force: Kevin Baker, “ ‘Welcome to Fear City’—The Inside Story of New York’s Civil War, 40 Years On,” Guardian, May 18, 2015.

When Joan Faier encountered the Barbizon: Terry Trucco, “Grace Kelly Slept Here: The Barbizon Hotel for Women Flirts with Landmark Status 30 Years After Its Demise,” Overnight New York, August 11, 2011, https://overnightnewyork.com/hotels-in-the-news/in-the-news-the-barbizon-hotel-for-women/.

in 1975, seventy-nine-year-old Ruth