The Barbizon Hotel: the Legendary Place of Free Women
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Welcome to the Barbizon Hotel. In the 1920s, a large number of young women liberated from their families poured into New York, and apartment hotels with mainly female guests became popular. Among them, the only one that really captures the imagination of the entire United States is the Barbizon Hotel. It's filled with aspiring young actors, models, artists, and writers who have rooms of their own and are eager to make a name for themselves in New York. Writer Sylvia Plath spent ten years at the Barbizon, Titanic survivor Molly Brown sang arias here, Joan Didion got her start writing here, and actress Grace Kelly danced here. "The Barbizon Hotel" records a group of women in an era, and also records a glorious development history of women. Historian Bren takes us back to New York in the 20th century to witness a fascinating little-known history.
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