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Personal life. Bowles had a rich love life. In 1937, she and Paul Bowles were introduced to each other by Erika Mann, [3] and in the following year (1938), they were married and went on a honeymoon in Central America. She visited lesbian bars while they traveled together in Paris.
In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, at that time in the Tangier International Zone, and his wife Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Ceylon during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles's home for the remainder of his life. He came to symbolize American immigrants in the city.
Jun 17, 2016 · Jane, a disabled Jewish lesbian/bisexual author, and Paul a bisexual composer and author, were married in 1938 and stayed together until Jane died in 1973. Jane and Paul Bowles were well known in writing circles throughout their concurrent careers.
The strange marriage of Paul and Jane Bowles, two extraordinarily eccentric characters, exemplified the change in mores from the Edwardian to the modern era and anticipated many of the sexual practices that became common after the social revolution of the 1960s.
- Jeffrey Meyers
- 2011
Jun 12, 2014 · In 1937, Jane met Paul Bowles, a slight, handsome, waspish composer from New York.
She married the composer-author Paul Bowles in 1938. They lived in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and the United States, where she began writing her only published novel, Two Serious Ladies (1943).
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Born in Manhattan in 1917, Jane Bowles married composer and writer Paul Bowles in 1938. Both bisexual, the couple remained together after their sexual relationship ended, giving one another personal and professional support for over thirty-five years.
