The Resource The Barbizon : the New York hotel that set women free, Paulina Bren
The Barbizon : the New York hotel that set women free, Paulina Bren
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The item The Barbizon : the New York hotel that set women free, Paulina Bren represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Welcome to The Barbizon, New York's premier women-only hotel. Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and over the years, its 688 tiny pink 'highly feminine boudoirs' also housed Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly (notorious for sneaking in men), Joan Didion, Candice Bergen, Charlie's Angel Jaclyn Smith, Ali McGraw, Cybil Shepherd, Elaine Stritch, Liza Minnelli, Eudora Welty, The Cosby Show's Phylicia Rashad, and writers Mona Simpson and Ann Beattie, among many others. Mademoiselle boarded its summer interns there - perfectly turned-out young women, who would never be spotted hatless - as did Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School its students - in their white-gloves and kitten heels - and the Ford Modelling Agency its young models. Not everyone who passed through the Barbizon's doors was destined for greatness - for some it was a story of dashed hopes and expectations - but from the Jazz Age New Women of the 1920s, to the Liberated Women of the 1960s, until 1981 when the first men checked in, The Barbizon was a place where women could stand up and be counted. The Barbizon is a colourful, glamorous portrait of the lives of these young women, who came to New York looking for something more. It's a story of pushing the boundaries, of women's emancipation and of the generations of brilliant women who passed through its halls
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 321 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Building the Barbizon: the unsinkable Molly Brown vs. the flappers
- Surviving the Depression: Gibbs Girls and Powers models
- McCarthyism and its female prey: Betsy Talbot Blackwell and her career women
- The dollhouse days: Grace Kelly and the beauty queens
- Sylvia Plath: the summer of 1953
- Joan Didion: the summer of 1955
- The invisible: Gael Greene and "The lone women"
- "The problem that has no name": Sylvia Plath and the 1950s, in memoriam
- The end of an era: from women's hotel to millionaires' apartments
- Isbn
- 9781529393033
- Label
- The Barbizon : the New York hotel that set women free
- Title
- The Barbizon
- Title remainder
- the New York hotel that set women free
- Statement of responsibility
- Paulina Bren
- Subject
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- Brown, Margaret Tobin, 1867-1932 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Didion, Joan -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Greene, Gael -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Hotels -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Hotels -- New York(State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Plath, Sylvia -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Barbizon/63 (New York, N.Y.)
- Women -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- New York (State) | New York -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Women -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- New York -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Women -- New York(State) | New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- New York(State) | New York -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Red hot reads
- Blackwell, Betsy Talbot, 1905-1985 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Welcome to The Barbizon, New York's premier women-only hotel. Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and over the years, its 688 tiny pink 'highly feminine boudoirs' also housed Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly (notorious for sneaking in men), Joan Didion, Candice Bergen, Charlie's Angel Jaclyn Smith, Ali McGraw, Cybil Shepherd, Elaine Stritch, Liza Minnelli, Eudora Welty, The Cosby Show's Phylicia Rashad, and writers Mona Simpson and Ann Beattie, among many others. Mademoiselle boarded its summer interns there - perfectly turned-out young women, who would never be spotted hatless - as did Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School its students - in their white-gloves and kitten heels - and the Ford Modelling Agency its young models. Not everyone who passed through the Barbizon's doors was destined for greatness - for some it was a story of dashed hopes and expectations - but from the Jazz Age New Women of the 1920s, to the Liberated Women of the 1960s, until 1981 when the first men checked in, The Barbizon was a place where women could stand up and be counted. The Barbizon is a colourful, glamorous portrait of the lives of these young women, who came to New York looking for something more. It's a story of pushing the boundaries, of women's emancipation and of the generations of brilliant women who passed through its halls
- Cataloging source
- NJB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bren, Paulina
- Dewey number
- 305.4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Plath, Sylvia
- Didion, Joan
- Greene, Gael
- Grace
- Brown, Margaret Tobin
- Blackwell, Betsy Talbot
- Barbizon/63 (New York, N.Y.)
- Hotels
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Hotels
- Women
- Women
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Barbizon : the New York hotel that set women free, Paulina Bren
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- still image
- text
- Content type code
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- sti
- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Building the Barbizon: the unsinkable Molly Brown vs. the flappers -- Surviving the Depression: Gibbs Girls and Powers models -- McCarthyism and its female prey: Betsy Talbot Blackwell and her career women -- The dollhouse days: Grace Kelly and the beauty queens -- Sylvia Plath: the summer of 1953 -- Joan Didion: the summer of 1955 -- The invisible: Gael Greene and "The lone women" -- "The problem that has no name": Sylvia Plath and the 1950s, in memoriam -- The end of an era: from women's hotel to millionaires' apartments
- Control code
- 000068883308
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- vii, 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9781529393033
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1244180383
- Label
- The Barbizon : the New York hotel that set women free, Paulina Bren
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Building the Barbizon: the unsinkable Molly Brown vs. the flappers -- Surviving the Depression: Gibbs Girls and Powers models -- McCarthyism and its female prey: Betsy Talbot Blackwell and her career women -- The dollhouse days: Grace Kelly and the beauty queens -- Sylvia Plath: the summer of 1953 -- Joan Didion: the summer of 1955 -- The invisible: Gael Greene and "The lone women" -- "The problem that has no name": Sylvia Plath and the 1950s, in memoriam -- The end of an era: from women's hotel to millionaires' apartments
- Control code
- 000068883308
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- vii, 321 pages
- Isbn
- 9781529393033
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1244180383
Subject
- Brown, Margaret Tobin, 1867-1932 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Didion, Joan -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Greene, Gael -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Hotels -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Hotels -- New York(State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Plath, Sylvia -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
- Barbizon/63 (New York, N.Y.)
- Women -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- New York (State) | New York -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Women -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- New York -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Women -- New York(State) | New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- New York(State) | New York -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Red hot reads
- Blackwell, Betsy Talbot, 1905-1985 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
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