Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Standard Name: Barney, Natalie Clifford
Birth Name: Natalie Clifford Barney
Nickname: l'Amazone
Nickname: l'imperatrice des lesbiennes
Pseudonym: Florence Temple-Bradford
Pseudonym: Tryphê
Used Form: Tryphe
Natalie Clifford Barney
, though American, is best known as a Paris salonnière. She specialized in memoirs and pensées, though she also produced poetry, drama, novels, essays, and dialogues. Writing primarily in French but also sometimes in English, she appropriated the epigrammatic tradition of Pascal
, La Rochefoucauld
, and Wilde
for a female subject matter.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press.
295
Much of her work celebrates sapphic love from a frankly autobiographical perspective. Her numerous sketches of writers and intellectuals, along with her fictionalized appearances in several works by others, attest to her prominent role in creating and extending Modernist literary networks.
Julia Briggs
reads the text as a roman à clef in which Scudéry
is an unflattering portrait of Natalie Barney
(whom HM
would have encountered when herself living in Paris) while Harrison
appears as the...
In Paris, Trefusis attended Natalie Barney
's salon only once, preferring to host her own, which was attended by Paul Morand
, Jean Giraudoux
, and a number of diplomats.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
72, 87
Leisure and Society
Leonora Carrington
The street in which LC
and Ernst lived was also occupied by such authors as Gertrude Stein
and Natalie Barney
at various times in the early twentieth century.
Friends, Associates
Djuna Barnes
DB
arrived in Paris with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound
and James Joyce
, and she soon came into contact with a great number of the US expatriates living there at this time, including...
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
22, 26-7
With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud
Friends, Associates
Una Troubridge
In the wake of Hall's death, UT
found some strength from her friendships with women, such as the writers Colette
and Natalie Barney
.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
373-4
Friends, Associates
Anna Wickham
AW
's vibrant personality attracted many friends, several of whom were writers and artists. By all accounts, she was an extraordinarily vital and charismatic woman. David Garnett
describes her as a a very handsome, big...
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.
361-2
Friends, Associates
Gertrude Stein
Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Wickham
After their first meeting in Paris, AW
and Natalie Barney
became friends, and they corresponded between 1926 and 1937. AW
wrote a series of Post-card Poems enclosed in letters declaring her passionate love for Barney...