Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs of one woman's rebellion against "the whole ghastly social structure" under which the United States had been buried since the Victorian era. Luhan fled the Gilded Age prison of the upper classes to lead a life of notoriety a[...]
Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) was a political, social, and cultural visionary. Over the years, she hosted famous gatherings in Florence and Greenwich Village, drawing a mix of intellectuals, writers and artists from East and West coasts and Europe. When Mabel Dodge moved to Taos, New Mexico and marr[...]