Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney ( born October 31, 1876 in Dayton, Ohio, † 24 April 1972 in Paris, France) was an American author and founder of a literary salons and known for their courageous then open lesbian relationship with the poet Renée Vivien, the dancer Liane de Pougy and the painter Romaine Brooks.
Life
Natalie Clifford Barney was the eldest daughter of a wealthy railroad owner Albert Clifford Barney (1855-1902) and his wife, the painter Alice Pike Barney ( 1857-1931 ). Her younger sister was Laura Clifford Barney (1879-1974), a successful writer and later became a follower of the Baha'i faith. Together with her sister, she attended the French Maid - Internant Les Ruches in Fontainebleau of Mademoiselle Marie Souvestre.
As heiress she came in 1898 financially independent from Washington to Paris and founded there in the Rue Jacob her salon. There, they met regularly on Friday afternoons. They knew how to convey the company Proust's world and that of the Lost Generation. Many visitors came both in her salon as well as in Gertrude Stein, who had just opened in 1903 from the United States coming in Paris a salon. Barney's salon existed until 1968. Besides promoting the literary conversation, and the discussion of theater projects, he also served as the self-expression of his more eccentric visitors.
Mata Hari approximately announced that she wanted to Breaking in to the next meeting on a circus elephant and was persuaded only with difficulty, with a scantily clad appearance to be content with circus horse. Barney himself was the model for a range of literary works, as well as for " Claudine s'en va" (1903 ) by Sidonie -Gabrielle Colette.
Primary literature
Works in French
- Quelques Portraits - Sonnets de Femmes (Paris: Olle village, 1900)
- Cinq Petits Dialogues Grecs (Paris: La Plume, 1901, as " Tryphé " )
- Actes et entr'actes (Paris: Sansot, 1910)
- Je me souviens (Paris: Sansot, 1910)
- Èparpillements (Paris: Sansot, 1910)
- Pensées d'une Amazone (Paris: Emile Paul, 1920)
- Aventures de l' Esprit ( Paris: Emile Paul, 1929)
- Nouvelles Pensées de l' Amazone (Paris: Mercure de France, 1939)
- Souvenirs Indiscrets (Paris: Flammarion, 1960)
- Traits et Portraits (Paris: Mercure de France, 1963)
Works in English
- Poems & Poèmes: Autres Alliances (Paris: Emile Paul, New York: Doran, 1920) - bilingual collection of poems
- The One Who Is Legion ( London: Eric Partridge, Ltd., 1930, Orono, Maine. National Poetry Foundation, 1987)
English Translations
- A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney ( New Victoria Publishers, 1992); edited and translated by Anna Livia
- Adventures of the Mind (New York University Press, 1992); translated by John Spalding Gatton