"The Barbizon Hotel: The Legendary Place of Free Women" by Pauline Brune Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

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A tribute to the power of freedom and courage of women

Everything you can imagine can be realized

📚Recommended by dozens of European and American media including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker, and Forbes' best must-read non-fiction

🎬HBO's American TV series of the same name is in hot production, and Emilia Clarke, the "Dragon Mother" of "Game of Thrones", will serve as executive producer

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Welcome to the Barbizon Hotel.

In the 1920s, a large number of young women who had been liberated from their families flocked to New York City, and apartment-style hotels that catered mainly to women became popular. Among them, the one that really captured the imagination of the whole country was the Barbizon Hotel. It was filled with aspiring young actors, models, artists and writers who had their own rooms and were eager to make a name for themselves in New York.

Writer Sylvia Plath spent ten years in Barbizon, Titanic survivor Molly Brown sang her last aria here, writer Joan Didion started writing here, and actress Grace Kelly also danced here. "Barbizon Hotel" records the female group portrait of an era and also records a glorious history of female development. Historian Brun takes us back to New York in the 20th century to witness a fascinating history that is little known to the public.

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🏫A glorious history of women's development, a group portrait of extraordinary women in the 20th century: After the First World War, a large number of young women pursuing liberation and self-creation flocked to New York. Writers Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion, actors Grace Kelly and Tippi Hedren, Titanic survivor Molly Brown and others successively moved into Barbizon. They were full of enthusiasm and bravely pursued their dreams.

🏫An annual non-fiction that integrates culture, biography, history, and feminism: In New York City a hundred years ago, the fates of countless women were intertwined in the tide of the times. It uses real and interesting individual stories to show the two waves of feminism in the 20th century.

🏫Talking about feminism, this landmark building is indispensable, a dream place of an era: the Barbizon Hotel has a history of nearly a hundred years. Its fate is closely linked to the cultural history of New York. Its fate from prosperity to decline is regrettable.

🏫Award-winning author + well-known translator ace combination, the reading experience is hearty: the famous American historian Brun's many years of research masterpiece, "one book became famous", restores the little-known true history. The well-known domestic translator He Yujia translated it passionately, the translation is accurate and fluent, and the vivid pictures are presented before our eyes.