The story of Oscar's flamboyant niece, Dolly Wilde (1895-1941) and the notorious literary salon in Paris that she and Natalie Barney established in the 1920s. The Academie des Femmes was a sort of literary circle comprising at one time or another Colette, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Romaine Brooks. It was often visited by men too - T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau. At the heart of the salon - and this story - is the passionate love affair between Dolly and Natalie. Dolly was, like her famous uncle, a witty degenerate, brilliant and literary. In Paris, she cross-dressed as her uncle. HG Wells called her a "feminine Wilde", Radclyffe Hall's lover called her "much the better man".
- ISBN10 0465087728
- ISBN13 9780465087723
- Publish Date December 2000 (first published 5 October 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 April 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English