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  • Based on Loy's friendship with the wealthy Mabel Dodge, the story describes Dodge as a "millionheir," Loy presumably being one of "the impecunious types with which Gloria has begun to salt her entertainments."

    The First Lady Of Futurism Helen Carr 2011

  • She was a Minneapolis-born freelance writer who lived in Greenwich Village for much of her life, traveling with such free thinkers and literary lights as Mabel Dodge, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather and Eugene O'Neill.

    Brenda, My Darling: The Love Letters of Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda Ueland 2012

  • In the early 1920s, Manhattan salon hostess Mabel Dodge founded a literary colony in Taos and married her fourth and last husband, Tony Luhan.

    Take Monday Off: Santa Fe and Taos Kate Bolick 2011

  • It's Demuth's pun on the avant-garde circles in which the artist and the poet who hung around together in Greenwich Village and at the salons of Walter and Louise Arensberg and Mabel Dodge traveled.

    Where Paint and Poetry Meet 2010

  • Reed wooed the bold and the beautiful of his time, like salonista Mabel Dodge, famous for bringing D. H. Lawrence to Taos, New Mexico.

    STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

  • Pretty, plump Mabel Dodge, for one, was hosting “evenings” in her white parlor, where current issues such as socialism, free love, and Freudianism were hotly discussed.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

  • Gertrude would unexpectedly quarrel with the very people she had been the most intimate with, like her brother Leo, or Mabel Dodge, or Bravig Imbs, or Hemingway, or the poet Georges Hugnet, or Virgil himself (though Virgil and she resumed their friendship after the production of Four Saints).

    Visiting Gertrude and Alice Grosser, Maurice 1986

  • Anthony had only just set foot in a New York book fair on Park Avenue when he saw just inside the door the stall of a British dealer, Ian Hustwick, who called him over, and offered him a scarce first edition of Gertrude Stein's Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia - one of 300 copies issued free of charge in

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Dennis Barker 2010

  • There is Carl Van Vechten, for instance, invoking the primitivism of Harlem to try to outdo Luhan and her pueblo Southwest; or Mary Austin striving to make of northern New Mexico a "woman's sphere"; or Georgia O'Keeffe painting memorable pictures but also engaging in "romantically charged correspondence" with busy Jean Toomer -- did Mabel Dodge know about that

    Oddballs in the Desert 2008

  • When Ms. Burke writes of Mabel Dodge "that her marriage with [Tony] Lujan brought white people into contact with a culture necessary for humanity's survival.

    Oddballs in the Desert 2008

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