Solita Solano

Solita Solano (born Sarah Wilkinson; October 30, 1888[1] – November 22, 1975) was an American writer, poet and journalist.

They returned to New York in 1908, where she started work as a theatre critic and drama editor with the New-York Tribune and as a freelance contributor to the National Geographic Society.

In 1922, they travelled to France, and in Paris joined the intellectual-lesbian circle of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Natalie Clifford Barney, Romaine Brooks and Djuna Barnes.

In 1929, Solano had an affair with Margaret Anderson, founder of The Little Review, who had come to Paris with her lover, French singer Georgette Leblanc.

She was a member of a female-only, key Gurdjieff group known as The Rope, to which Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and Kathryn Hulme also belonged.

Solita Solano and Djuna Barnes in Paris (Maurice Brange, Au Café , 1922)