Neith boyce autobiography of miss

  • Well known in the first two decades of the twentieth century for her fiction, plays, poetry, and articles, Neith Boyce (�) witnessed at first hand.
  • Boyce wrote the bulk of this material in her late 60s, looking back on her early life — from a tragic childhood (all four of her siblings died in the diphtheria.
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    Neith Boyce's last play, "The Sea Lady," has world premiere in New York, October

    Don't miss the first full staging of Neith Boyce's play,"The Sea Lady," at New York's Metropolitan Playhouse,  

    Abandoned at its point of production for Broadway in , this adaptation of the mermaid myth emerges from the sea for a production by

    Metropolitan Playhouse

    East Fourth Street, New York

    Alex Roe, producing artistic director

    3 p.m. Sundays, 7 p.m. Thurs.-Saturdays, October

    Opening night (Oct.8) introduction by Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, biographer of Boyce


    Neith Who?

    Neith Boyce () was a Progressive-Era writer who worked in poetry, theater, short stories, novels, and various forms of creative nonfiction. She began her literary career with fiction published in her father's newspaper in Los Angeles and in California "little magazines," moving to write for cultural magazines edited by her mother in Boston in the late s. From there she migrated to New York and wo

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    Neith Boyce's gods play, "The Sea Lady," has world premiere in New York, October

    Don't miss the first full staging of Neith Boyce's play,"The Sea Lady," at New York's Metropolitan Playhouse,  

    Abandoned at its point of production for huvudgata in , this adaptation of the mermaid myth emerges from the sea for a production by

    Metropolitan Playhouse

    East Fourth Street, New York

    Alex Roe, producing artistic director

    3 p.m. Sundays, 7 p.m. Thurs.-Saturdays, October

    Opening night (Oct.8) introduction bygd Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, biographer of Boyce


    She was a Free Spirit in a Dependent Age

    "She Was All That: This Single Chick Broke the Mold"

    The Boston Globe
    November 30,
    By Kate Bolick

    I like to think of Neith Boyce as America’s first bachelor girl — a more serious, though equally independent, 19th-century Carrie Bradshaw. It’s not an entirely unfair notion. In Boyce wrote a column for Vogue about her life as a single woman in New York with t

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    The Modern World of Neith Boyce: Autobiography and Diaries

    Neith Boyce

    University of New Mexico Press, - halaman

    "Anyone interested in the history of American modernism will find the writings collected in this volume a fascinating window into the period. Boyce's early life was spent in California. Her father was a co-founder of the Los Angeles Times, and Neith became part of the bohemian life of the city before moving east. Two of the documents in this volume record her European sojourns of and , where she was acquainted with Gertrude Stein and Mabel Dodge, both of whom remained part of her life after her return to the United States. She was also involved with, among others, the influential free verse poet Mina Loy and the New American Theatre movement associated with the Provincetown Players."--BOOK JACKET.