Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976.
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Anthologization | Colette | Colette
issued in volume form, through Flammarion
, her novel La Naissance du Jour: Roman; that month her Renée Vivien appeared in a little collection, Les Amis d'Edouard (that is, of writer and... |
death | Natalie Clifford Barney | She was buried near Renée Vivien
at the Passy Cemetery. Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976. 204-5 Chalon, Jean, and Natalie Clifford Barney. “Note”. Un panier de framboises, Mercure de France, 1979, pp. 41-3. 42 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
learned that her former lover, Renée Vivien
, had committed suicide, aged only just past thirty. Chalon, Jean. Portrait of a Seductress: The World of Natalie Barney. Translator Barko, Carol, Crown, 1979. 83 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
's relationship with poet Renée Vivien
, though brief, made a deep and lasting impression on Barney. Vivien was a pseudonym for Pauline Tarn
, an English poet and prose writer who wrote primarily... |
Fictionalization | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
has been a magnet for biographers (recently as the subject with Romaine Brooks
of Diana Souhami
's Wild Girls in 2004 and as a minor character in Joan Schenkar
's Truly Wilde: the Unsettling... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Brigid Brophy | One of the twelve sections is no more fifty words. The novel's decadent style inhabits the minds of several characters, particularly that of the tall, fragile, perpetually exhausted but secretly sexually voracious Antonia Mount. Her... |
Literary responses | Sappho | This inspired, among others, Amy Levy
, Gubar, Susan. “Multiple personality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xviii , No. 12, Sept. 2001, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | Based on NCB
's relationship with Renée Vivien
, the narrative is a passionate exploration of love for a woman: My love is a selfish, glorious, god-like thing. It is very theatrical. It is very... |
Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | Like her earlier novels, this one seems to be partly based on her relationship with Renée Vivien
, who committed suicide twenty years before it was published. The story is told from the point of... |
Textual Production | Anna Livia | In this text Minnie and her family return somewhat changed. While all of Minnie's relatives have taken male lovers (all named John, perhaps in honour of the name by which Radclyffe Hall
liked to be... |
Textual Production | Anna Livia | Anna Livia contributed entries on Natalie Barney
and Elana Dykewomon
to The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage (1994), as well as entries for Bonnie Zimmerman
's Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000) on Natalie Barney |
Textual Production | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
completed another work inspired by her relationship with Renée Vivien
, Je me souviens. It was published anonymously in 1910, after Vivien's death. Causse, Michèle. Berthe ou un demi-siècle auprès de l’Amazone. Tierce, 1980. 249 Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976. 65, 112 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Colette | Colette imagines the Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, born during the eighteenth century) living among twentieth-century accoutrements like cars, cigarettes, and crossword puzzles. Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973. 206 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Natalie Clifford Barney | The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB
's encounters with Oscar Wilde
, Anatole France
, Remy de Gourmont
, Marcel Proust
, Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Max Jacob
, and others. The second part... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Natalie Clifford Barney | In the preface, NCB
comments that she has never written anything that was not inspired by love or intimacy. Barney, Natalie Clifford. Souvenirs indiscrets. Flammarion, 1960. 25 |
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