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...
Friends, Associates
Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM
was invited to tea at the Paris salon of Natalie Barney
; Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
told her that she owed it to her own gloire to attend.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
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Occupation
Natalie Clifford Barney
Her home at rue Jacob had been acquired in the spring of that year, with the help of her friend, French writer Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
. Its garden held a small Doric temple, which became known...
Occupation
Natalie Clifford Barney
In a letter to Gertrude Stein
written in December 1926, NCB
explains: The other night . . . I realized how little the French femmes de lettres know of English and Americans and vice versa...
Reception
Anna Wickham
Thanks to Untermeyer and to British poet and anthologist John Gawsworth
, by the 1930s AW
's poetry was widely anthologised, making her often as well represented as respected male poets such as Lawrence
,...
In 1992, Anna Livia
edited and translated the collection A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney. In 1995, she did the same with Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
's novel The Angel and the Perverts...