Albert Clifford Barney

Standard Name: Barney, Albert Clifford

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Natalie Clifford Barney
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.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986.
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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.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986.
279
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.
Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986.
273
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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Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986.
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