![]() ![]() In 1921, Barnes travelled to Europe, then spent almost all of the next twenty years in England and France. She wrote poetry ( The Book of Repulsive Women, published in 1915) and several short plays ("Three From the Earth,"? "Kurzy of the Sea," and "An Irish Triangle"), which were produced by the Provincetown Players in 19. During this period, she became involved in the bohemian artistic milieu of Greenwich Village. In 1913, she began working as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and was soon writing and illustrating features and interviews for the New York Morning Telegraph, the New York Press, and the New York Sun, among other publications. Barnes studied art at the Pratt Institute (1912-1913) and at the Art Student's League of New York (1915-1916). Noted journalist and avant-garde author Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, on June 12, 1892, the second child and only daughter of Wald and Elizabeth Chappell Barnes. ![]()
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