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Djuna Barnes left [1892-1982]
Thelma Wood [1901-1970]

D.Barnes left the United States where she was born to become a major literary figure in Paris during the 20’s and 30’s. Although she left a small body of work, nevertheless her book Nightwood which fictionalised her lesbian relationship with Thelma Wood, became a cult classic of lesbian fiction. She belongs to the Modernist Literary movement alongside of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall. T.Wood was an American, a painter specialising in Silverpoint drawing.