Written in France in 1923-24 and never previously published, Djuna Barnes' play, Biography of Julie von Bartmann, is related to several of her early stories--particularly "A Night Among the Horses"--and to her 1928 fiction Ryder. Like the father, Wendell, of her fiction, the father of this early play, Basil Born, refuses to let his children attend public school, and challenges the school authorities, opposing their teaching methodologies:...
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