![]() Sylvia Beach became known as a publisher, and as a home base for Americans such as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound Adrienne Monnier became the point of contact for authors such as Valery Larbaud, Paul Valéry and André Gide. Beach focused on English-language literature - only very little contemporary American and English literature was then available in translation - while Monnier focused on French literature. ![]() In 1921, Sylvia Beach opened her own business, Shakespeare & Company, across from Monnier's store, following the same formula: a bookstore/library, publisher and salon. Monnier was also active as a publisher and author herself (under the pseudonym J.-M. ![]() The bookstore, La Maison des Amis des Livres, functioned as a meeting point for writers, artists, publishers and printers. ![]() Monnier ran a bookstore and a lending library when they first met on the left bank of the Seine, at number seven on the rue de l'Odéon. ![]() These two book lovers met in 1917, and ended up working and living together for 38 years. Two women played a central role in Parisian literary life after World War I: Frenchwoman Adrienne Monnier (1892-1955) and American Sylvia Beach (1887-1962). ![]()
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