Lee Miller's life embodied all the complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. This story of art and beauty, sex and power, modernism and surrealism illuminates a woman's journey from art object to artist. Lee Miller's life embodied all the complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. This story of art and beauty, sex and power, modernism and surrealism illuminates a woman's journey from art object to artist. Introduction xi Part One: Elizabeth A Poughkeepsie Girlhood (1907--15) 3(18) Never Jam Today (1915--25) 21(18) Circulating Around (1925--26) 39(14) Being in Vogue (1926--29) 53(20) Part Two: Miss Lee Miller Montparnasse with Man Ray (1929--30) 73(24) La Femme Surrealiste (1930--32) 97(24) The Lee Miller Studio in Manhattan (1932--34) 121(24) Part Three: Madame Eloui Bey Egypt (1934--37) 145(18) Surrealist Encampments (Summer 1937) 163(12) The Egyptian Complex (1937--39) 175(22) Part Four: Lee Miller, War Correspondent London in the Blitz (1939--44) 197(24) Covering the War in France (1944--45) 221(26) Covering the War in Germany (1945) 247(20) Postwar (1945--46) 267(26) Part Five: Lady Penrose Patching Things Up (1946--50) 293(22) A Double Life (1950--61) 315(22) A Second Fame (1961--71) 337(20) Retrospectives (1971--77) 357(14) Afterword 371(4) Appendix: A Lee Miller Dinner for Eight 375(4) Notes 379(26) Bibliography 405(6) Acknowledgments 411(4) Index 415