Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
met painter Romaine Brooks
. The women soon began a relationship that lasted until 1969, a year before Brooks' death. Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976. 145 Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986. 304 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
's lover the painter Romaine Brooks
died, one year after breaking off their fifty-year relationship. Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976. 204 Chalon, Jean. Portrait of a Seductress: The World of Natalie Barney. Translator Barko, Carol, Crown, 1979. 226 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | VT
began an affair with Winnaretta, Princesse de Polignac
, an American-born heiress and salonnière whose former lovers included Romaine Brooks
and Olga de Meyer
. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 230 |
Friends, Associates | Una Troubridge | The couple's circle of friends included many notable women: painter Romaine Brooks
, writers Natalie Barney
, Violet Hunt
, and Iris Tree
(daughter of actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree), the Duchess Clermont Tonnerre
... |
Friends, Associates | Radclyffe Hall | During the 1920s, RH
and Una Troubridge
were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie
, Romaine Brooks
, Natalie Barney
, Noël Coward
, Tallulah Bankhead
, and... |
Literary responses | Radclyffe Hall | Romaine Brooks
was unhappy with RH
's portrayal of her as Venetia Ford, and wrote that she had been observed with the eye of a sparrow who sees no further than the window pane. I... |
Publishing | Natalie Clifford Barney | It was published privately by Eric Partridge
at the Scholastic Press
in London, in a limited edition of 560 copies, with two illustrations by Romaine Brooks
. Barney, Natalie Clifford. Souvenirs indiscrets. Flammarion, 1960. prelims OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986. 298 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. |
Reception | 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... |
Residence | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
and Romaine Brooks
, both Fascist sympathisers, moved to the Villa Sant'Agnese just outside Florence in Italy, where they stayed until the end of the Second World War. Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976. 191-4 Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986. 416 |
Residence | Natalie Clifford Barney | |
Textual Features | Djuna Barnes | Structured as a monthly chronicle, Ladies Almanack is a satiric lesbian cosmology based on Natalie Barney
and her circle in Paris. Among its characters are Patience Scalpel, based on Mina Loy
, Lady Buck-and-Balk and... |
Textual Features | Radclyffe Hall | The Forge is a comic exploration of the tensions between creative and domestic life as experienced by its central characters, a married couple who are also a novelist and an artist. Another artist figure in... |
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... |
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