Caitlin O’Keefe | The New York Review of Books

Caitlin O’Keefe

Caitlin O’Keefe is a PhD student in history at New York University’s Institute for French Studies. She has an MA in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College. While researching in the Parisian archives for her thesis on Sylvia Beach and the women readers of the interwar period, Caitlin lived and worked at Shakespeare and Company as a “tumbleweed.” (November 2019)

Feminism & Shakespeare and Company

To characterize Sylvia Beach as merely a “midwife” and to remember her primarily for bringing into being the work of Great Men is to misrepresent her and the everyday work at her Shakespeare and Company bookshop.

November 18, 2019