Ladies Almanack

By Djuna BarnesIntroduction by Sarah SchulmanWith illustrations by the author ISBN: 9781628975581 Publication Date: 02/17/2026 A "striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody" by the acclaimed author of Nightwood. (—Library Journal) Nearly 100 years after its original 1928 publicationsent shockwaves through the literary scene, Ladies Almanack reigns as a brilliant modernist composition and one of the most audacious lesbian texts of the 20th century. At once a scathing social satire and a love letter to the wealthy expatriates of Paris high society, the book delights in its cast of characters, who are clear analogues to Barnes’ lesbian literary contemporaries—and the book’s first readers. Arranged by month and written in a pastiche of Restoration literature, Ladies Almanack records the life and lovers of Dame Evangeline Musset, a pseudonymous stand-in for Natalie Clifford Barney. Accompanied for the first time by Barnes’ original Elizabethan-style woodcut illustrations, this new edition