Using funds she inherited at her husband
's death, NCB
's mother, Alice Pike Barney
, opened Studio House
, to support the arts in Washington, DC.
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Ballard, Amy. “Barney Studio House: A National Treasure”. Smithsonian Preservation Quarterly, Fall 1994.
Family and Intimate relationships
Natalie Clifford Barney
NCB
's father, Albert Clifford Barney
, was a railroad heir. At the age of thirty he retired on the profits from the sale of the family business, Barney Car Works
, to the Pullman Sleeping Car Company
Leisure and Society
Natalie Clifford Barney
To please her father
, NCB
was presented as a debutante in Washington, DC.
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Literary responses
Natalie Clifford Barney
Barney's father
, enraged by the work's lesbian content, made an unsuccessful attempt to suppress it by buying all available copies as well as the typesetting plates.
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American critics denounced the book for its...
Wealth and Poverty
Natalie Clifford Barney
NCB
's father
died, leaving Natalie and her sister each $2,500,000.
Benstock estimates that this inheritance would amount to approximately $50,000,000 in the 1980s.
Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976.
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