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Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 24 April 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote, & ran the famed salon at Xx Rue Jacob around Paris at the turn of the 20th century. She was the poet, memoirist & epigrammatist, however believed her life was her avowedly act of art. Barney was publicly sapphic, & worked to revive the literary history for women. She was especially interested in the verse form of Sappho and tried to recreate a school of women poets rather a a single that Sappho wear Mytilene. Barney was besides notorious for her several conquests enamored (including a poet Renee Vivien, a dancer Liane de Pougy & the painter Romaine Brooks), and her commitment non-monogamy. Barney's life has provided inspiration for several writers, & she is portrayed around several novels of the instance, including Liane de Pougy's Idylle sapphique (Sapphic Idyll, 1901), Colette's Claudine s'en va (Claudine & Annie, 1903), Radcliffe Hall's The Easily of Loneliness (1928), Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack, and Lucie Delarue Mardrus's L'Ange et les pervers (a Angel & the Deviant, 1930). Barney wrote nearly only around French. Virtually all of her plays & poetry collections own never been translated, & come however merely available inside French. These works include:
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The Natalie Barney Pages Biography, photographs, mail list and in-depth information about the 19th-20th century American writer. Natalie Barney: An American Lesbian in Paris Discussion of the expatriate writer's lovelife. Natalie Clifford Barney Biography of the lesbian poet. |
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