February House, Sherill Tippins
Type
Label
February House, Sherill Tippins
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
February House
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Sherill Tippins
Summary
February House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers-and America's best-known burlesque performer-in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn. It was a fevered yearlong party, fueled by the appetites of youth and a shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before the country entered World War II. In spite of the sheer intensity of life at 7 Middagh, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born, bibulously, in Brooklyn. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her Middagh Street bedroom. W. H. Auden-who, along with Benjamin Britten, was being excoriated back in England for absenting himself from the war-presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while, he was composing some of the most important work of his career. Enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, this tale of daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century comes from the acclaimed author of Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
Target audience
adult
Classification
Contributor
Creator
Subject
- Communal living -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, American + Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Auden, W. H., Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
- Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Electronic books
- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Authors, English + Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Literary landmarks -- New York (State) -- New York
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
Content
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject17
- Communal living -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, American + Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Auden, W. H., Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
- Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Electronic books
- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Authors, English + Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Literary landmarks -- New York (State) -- New York
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Content1
- Author1