Djuna Barnes quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 17.
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[The Baroness was] a citizen of terror, a contemporary without a country.
— Djuna Barnes quoted
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Source: Wikiquote: "Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven" (About)
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About Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927), sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von Loringhoven, was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.
About Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927), sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von Loringhoven, was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.
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