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Natalie Clifford Barney was an American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris that brought together French and international writers. She influenced other authors through her salon and also with her poetry, plays, and epigrams, often thematically tied to her lesbianism and feminism.
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culture · American playwright, poet and novelist (1876–1972) · playwright · poet · writer · salonnière · novelist · also Natalie Clifford Barney, Barney
Born 31 October 1876 · Died 2 February 1972 · Q34782
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s floors would not hold up to large dancing parties. Frequent guests during this period included poets Pierre Louÿs and Paul Claudel, diplomat Philippe Berthelot and translator J. C. Mardrus. During World War I, the salon became a haven for those opposed to the war. Henri Barbusse gave a reading from his anti-war novel Under Fire and Barney hosted a Women
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“s floors would not hold up to large dancing parties. Frequent guests during this period included poets Pierre Louÿs and Paul Claudel, diplomat Philippe Berthelot and translator J. C. Mardrus. During World War I, the salon became a haven for those opposed to the war. Henri Barbusse gave a reading from his anti-war novel Under Fire and Barney hosted a Women”
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Barney was honored with a historical marker in her home town of Dayton, Ohio
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But most of her plays and poetry are untranslated
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Barney was honored with a place setting in Judy Chicago's feminist work of art The Dinner Party
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Died 1972-02-02.
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“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”
“She could not be saved. Her life was a long suicide. Everything turned to dust and ashes in her hands.”
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And continued to attract young writers for whom it was as much a piece of history as a place where literary reputations were made
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Two years after the death of Hélène van Zuylen, Barney restored the Renée Vivien Prize with a financial grant under the authority of the Société des gens de lettres and took on the chairmanship of the jury in 1950
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From causes never fully explained; with one of the most common speculations being a paraldehyde overdose
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Was diagnosed with breast cancer and refused surgery, seeking alternative treatments
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Una, Lady Troubridge, complained that Barney "talked a lot of half-baked nonsense about the tyranny of fascism"
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Named Barney as her only heir
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In which she described Wilde as a rat "gnawing at the very foundation of our friendship"
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Depicted her in a novel, L'Ange et les Pervers (The Angel and the Perverts), in which she said she "analyzed and described Natalie at length as well as the life into which she initiated me"
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Barney started an Académie des Femmes (Women's Academy) to honor women writers
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Bringing together romantic poetry in both French and English
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With Pensées d'une Amazone (Thoughts of an Amazon), her most overtly political work
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“No one union shall be so strong as this union, nor another joining so tender—nor relationship so lasting”
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And Barney wrote up a marriage contract stating: "No one union shall be so strong as this union, nor another joining so tender—nor relationship so lasting"
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But the nickname he gave her would stay with her all her life—even her tombstone identifies her as "the Amazon of Remy de Gourmont"—and his Letters to the Amazon left readers wanting to know more about the woman who had
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Attempted suicide by overdosing on laudanum and died the following year
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Wrote Je Me Souviens (I Remember), an intensely personal prose poem about their relationship which was presented as a single handwritten copy to Vivien in an attempt to win her back
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His approximately $9 million fortune ($335 million in 2018) was left in trust with annual income to be split equally between Barney, her mother, and her sister
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The book and its sexually suggestive scenes became the talk of Paris, reprinted more than 70 times in its first year
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At Barney and Vivien's home in Paris, and they soon began a short romantic relationship
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A debut collection of poems by Olive Custance
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Barney published her first book, a collection of poems called Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (Some Portrait-Sonnets of Women)
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After seeing the courtesan Liane de Pougy at a dance hall in Paris, Barney presented herself at de Pougy's residence in a page costume and announced she was a "page of love" sent by Sappho
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Born 1876-10-31.
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In Dayton, Ohio, to Albert Clifford Barney and Alice Pike Barney
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